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Robert W. Fogel, 1926-2013

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Economic historian at Chicago.

Robert W. Fogel is one of the pioneers of "New Economic History", applying Neoclassical economics and quantitative techniques ('cliometrics') to economic history topics that were traditionally treated in the Historicist-Institutionalist method. Fogel is particularly famous for trying to quantify the impact of  railroads (1964) and slavery (1974) to the US economy.

Robert Fogel shared the Nobel memorial prize in 1993 with Douglass North.

 

  


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Major Works of Robert W. Fogel

  • Union Pacific Railroad : A Case in Premature Enterprise, 1960
  • "A Quantitative Approach to the Study of Railroads in American Economic Growth: A Report of Some Preliminary Findings", 1962, JEH.
  • Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in econometric history, 1964
  • "The Reunification of Economic History with Economic Theory", 1965, AER
  • Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, with S.L. Engerman, 1974
  • Aging: Stability and Change in the Family, with J.G. March, 1981
  • Which Road to the Past?, with G.F. Elton, 1985.
  • Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery, 1989
  • "Economic Growth, Population Theory and Physiology: The bearing of long-term processes on economic policy", 1994, AER [pdf]
  • The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, 2000
  • "Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Disease During the Course of the Twentieth Century", 2004 [nber]
  • The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Europe, America, and the Third World, 2004.
  • "High Performing Asian Economies", 2004 [nber]
  • "Reconsidering Expectations of Economic Growth After World War II from the Perspective of 2004", 2005, [nber]
  • "Impact of the Asian Miracle on Economic Growth", 2009 [nber]

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