biography
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Fogel, Robert W(illiam)
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Economic historian, born in New York City, New York, USA. The son of Russian immigrants, he organized Communist youth in New York before enrolling in Columbia University to study statistics (1960 AM). A brilliant maverick, he helped found cliometrics, a discipline that applies economic statistics to history. He wrote several books challenging historical assumptions, such as the relevance of railroads to the American west's economic development. He also wrote Time on the Cross (1974), which raised such a controversy about his views on slavery in America that he wrote a more accommodating second book, Without Consent or Contract (1989). He taught at several universities before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago (1981). In 1993 he shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with Douglass C North for their contributions to economic history. |
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