Robert Fogel

Robert William Fogel (July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013) was an American economic historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Fogel was born on July 1, 1926 in New York City, New York to Russian-Jewish parents. He was raised in Chicago, Illinois. Fogel graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1944. He studied at Cornell University, at Columbia University, and at Johns Hopkins University. Fogel died on June 11, 2013, at a health services center in Oak Park, Illinois of a short illness, aged 86.

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Other websites

Nobel prize autobiography
Review of Fogel's "Escape from Hunger and Premature Death" 
Lance Davis review essay on Fogel's Railroads and American Economic Growth 
Thomas Weiss review essay on Fogel and Engerman's Time on the Cross 
Podcast Interview with co-author Stanley Engerman on Time on the Cross on EconTalk at Econlib
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) updated information about Robert W. Fogel
Feature article in The University of Chicago magazine
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