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Robert Fogel
Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. 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 (c…
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culture · American economist and Nobel laureate (1926–2013) · economist · economic historian · historian · writer · university teacher · political economist · also Robert Fogel, Robert W. Fogel, R. W. Fogel, Fogel
Born 1 July 1926 · Died 11 June 2013 · Q237821
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2013· 2 entries
In Oak Lawn, Illinois, of a short illness, aged 86
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Died 2013-06-11.
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2000· 1 entry
Fogel published The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism in which he argued that America has been moving cyclically toward greater equality, largely because of the influence of religion, especially eva
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1993· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change.
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Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (1993).
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Robert Fogel received, jointly with fellow economic historian Douglass C
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1989· 1 entry
Fogel published Without Consent or Contract The Rise and Fall of American Slavery as a response to criticism stemming from what some perceived as the cold and calculating conclusions found in his earlier work, Time on th
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1981· 1 entry
Returned to the University of Chicago, where he directed the newly created Center for Population Economics at the Booth School of Business
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Bancroft Prize for Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1975).
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Left for Harvard University, and from 1978 on he worked as a research associate under the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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1972· 1 entry
The National Academy of Sciences in 1973, and the American Philosophical Society in 2000
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1971).
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1964· 1 entry
Moved to the University of Chicago as an associate professor
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1948· 1 entry
Became a professional organizer for the Communist Party during which time he approved the expulsion of future fellow historians of slavery Eugene Genovese and George Rawick
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-07-01.
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