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Robert William Fogel (/ ˈ f oʊ ɡ əl /; July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013) was an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
The late Robert Fogel was an economic historian at the University of Chicago who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993 for his studies of slavery in the United States, and the role railroads played in the development of the economy. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize with Douglass C. North.
His course in economic growth covered the history of technological change during the modern era, demography and population theory, and the use of national income aggregates for the comparative study of economic growth and of the size distribution of income.
Jun 11, 2013 · Robert W. Fogel. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1993. Born: 1 July 1927, New York, NY, USA. Died: 11 June 2013, Oak Lawn, IL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Jun 11, 2013 · Fogel was an economic historian at the University of Chicago who used quantitative methods to study slavery, railroads, aging and other topics. He challenged conventional wisdom and won the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his research on economic history.
Jun 12, 2013 · Robert W. Fogel, a Nobel-winning economist whose number-crunching empiricism upended established thinking, most provocatively about the economics of slavery, died on Tuesday in Oak Lawn, Ill.
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Jun 26, 2024 · Robert William Fogel (born July 1, 1926, New York, New York, U.S.—died June 11, 2013, Oak Lawn, Illinois) was an American economist who, with Douglass C. North, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993.
