Robert William Fogel (born July 1, 1926) is an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He is best known as a leading advocate of cliometrics, a name for the use of quantitative methods in history. Fogel was born in New York City, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, where he attended the prestigious Stuyvesant High School. Wikipedia
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Robert W. Fogel, Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1964. eh.net/bookreviews/library/davis.shtml
Economic historian Robert Fogel sees a new species of human evolution in records detailing the chronic illnesses of Civil War veterans. magazine.uchicago.edu/0726/features/human.shtml
Deans D. Gale Johnson and Robert McC. Adams made similar investments in my research at Chicago during the 1960s and early 1970s at levels that reflected as much their estimates of my promise as of accomplishments. nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1993/fogel-autobio.html