Robert Fogel
American economist and historian (1926-2013) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 86
Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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As of his death, he was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics (CPE) at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known as an advocate of new economic history (cliometrics) - the use of quantitative methods in history.
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