Robert Fogel
American economist and Nobel laureate (1926–2013)
Who was Robert Fogel?
Robert Fogel lived from July 1, 1926 to June 11, 2013. 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. Fogel was born in New York City, the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Odessa (1922). His brother, six years his senior, was his main intellectual influence in his youth as he listened to him and his college friends intensely discuss social and economic issues of the Great Depression. He graduated from the Stuyvesant High School in 1944.
Career and public life
As of his death, he was the Charles R. Upon his graduation he found himself with a love for literature and history and aspired for a career in science, but due to an extreme pessimism about the economy in the second half of the 1940s, he shifted his interest towards economics.
Historical significance
Robert William Fogel (; July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013) was an American economic historian and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is best known as an advocate of new economic history (cliometrics) – the use of quantitative methods in history. Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.