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According to Wikipedia, Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known as an advocate of new economic history – the use of quantitative methods in history.

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Published Papers

Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History. (1964) (697)
Time on the cross : the economics of American Negro slavery (1974) (511)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 (2005) (487)
Time on the Cross (1974) (435)
Without consent or contract : the rise and fall of American slavery : evidence and methods (1989) (358)
New Sources and New Techniques for the Study of Secular Trends in Nutritional Status, Health, Mortality, and the Process of Aging (1993) (326)
Railroads And American Economic Growth (1964) (301)
New findings on secular trends in nutrition and mortality: Some implications for population theory (1997) (301)
Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings (1984) (279)
A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs (1997) (257)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700â€“2100 (2004) (230)
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (2000) (206)
The Changing Body (2011) (194)
Catching Up with the Economy (1999) (193)
Health, Nutrition, and Economic Growth* (2004) (184)
Secular changes in American and British stature and nutrition. (1983) (158)
Exploring the Uses of Data on Height: The Analysis of Long-Term Trends in Nutrition, Labor Welfare, and Labor Productivity (1982) (151)
A Quantitative Approach to the Study of Railroads in American Economic Growth: A Report of Some Preliminary Findings (1962) (147)
The Reinterpretation of American Economic History. (1972) (137)
The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America: Timing and Mechanisms (1990) (132)
The Economics of Mortality in North America, 1650-1910: A Description Ofa Research Project (1982) (131)
Major Findings from The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700. (2011) (128)
Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger: Famines, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates (1993) (122)
Notes on the Social Saving Controversy (1979) (116)
Explaining the Relative Efficiency of Slave Agriculture in the Antebellum South: Reply (1977) (101)
Slavery's Cross Resurrected-and Recast@@@Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. (1990) (101)
Which Road to the Past?: Two Views of History (1985) (97)
Aging : stability and change in the family (1983) (90)
Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Additional Preliminary Findings (1986) (82)
The Specification Problem in Economic History (1967) (77)
Changes in the Process of Aging During the Twentieth Century: Findings and Procedures of the Early Indicators Project (2003) (77)
Physical Growth as a Measure of the Economic Well-being of Populations: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1986) (66)
Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death (1992) (61)
The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today: Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth (1994) (59)
The Limits of Quantitative Methods in History (1975) (58)
A Life Of Learning (1996) (58)
The Dimensions of Quantitative Research in History (1972) (58)
The New Economic History (1966) (57)
The relative efficiency of slavery: A comparison of northern and southern agriculture in 1860 (1971) (52)
Forecasting the Cost of U.S. Health Care in 2040 (2008) (48)
The Biospiritual Awakening?@@@The Fourth Great Awakening & the Future of Egalitarianism@@@The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work@@@The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy (2001) (47)
The Union Pacific Railroad: A Case In Premature Enterprise (1960) (46)
Economic and social structure for an ageing population. (1997) (41)
Philanthropy at Bargain Prices: Notes on the Economics of Gradual Emancipation (1974) (38)
Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger: Famines, Price Elasticities, Entitlements, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates (1989) (37)
Recent findings in the study of slave demography and family structure (1979) (36)
Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics (2013) (33)
Secular Trends in Physiological Capital: Implications for Equity in Health Care (2003) (33)
Secular changes in American and British stature and nutrition. (1983) (33)
Why China is Likely to Achieve its Growth Objectives (2006) (32)
Technophysio evolution and the measurement of economic growth (2004) (32)
The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective (2003) (30)
An Overview of the Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700 (2011) (28)
The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth (2009) (27)
Problems in Modeling Complex Dynamic Interactions: The Political Realignment of the 1850s (1992) (26)
Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases During the Course of the 20th Century (2005) (24)
Reconsidering Expectations of Economic Growth after World War II from the Perspective of 2004 (2005) (24)
“Scientific” History and Traditional History (1982) (24)
A Model for the Explanation of Industrial Expansion during the Nineteenth Century: With an Application to the American Iron Industry (1969) (24)
Changes in the Physiology of Aging During the Twentieth Century (2005) (23)
Southern History Upside Down: Cliometrics and Slavery@@@Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery.@@@Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods: A Supplement. (1974) (22)
Railroads as an Analogy to the Space Effort: Some Economic Aspects (1966) (22)
Quantitative Economic History: An Interim Evaluation Past Trends and Present Tendencies (1971) (20)
A New Economic History of Slavery in the United States@@@Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery.@@@Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods: A Supplement. (1974) (16)
Economic History and Economic Theory: The New Economic History in America@@@The Reinterpretation of American Economic History@@@The Structure of the Cotton Economy of the Antebellum South@@@Institutional Change and American Economic Growth (1972) (16)
Some Notes on the Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets (1987) (15)
Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and North America since 1700 (2014) (14)
Who Gets Health Care? (2003) (14)
Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity (2012) (14)
Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases During the Course of the 20th Century (2005) (14)
Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (2004) (14)
Three Phases of Cliometric Research on Slavery and Its Aftermath (1975) (14)
Economic and technological development and their relationships to body size and productivity (2002) (13)
Diet, Health and Work Intensity in England and Wales, 1700-1914 (2010) (13)
The Global Struggle to Escape from Chronic Malnutrition since 1700 (1997) (13)
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery.@@@Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods. (1975) (13)
FORECASTING THE DEMAND FOR HEALTH CARE IN OECD NATIONS AND CHINA (2003) (13)
High Performing Asian Economies (2004) (12)
Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Disease During the Course of the Twentieth Century (2004) (12)
The Demography of the Slave Population in Antebellum America@@@Time on the Cross. I: The Economics of American Negro Slavery@@@Time on the Cross. II: Evidence and Methods: A Supplement (1975) (12)
The New Economic History: Recent Papers on Methodology.@@@The Reinterpretation of American Economic History. (1973) (11)
The Problem of Audience in Historical Economics: Rhetorical Thoughts on a Text by Robert Fogel (1985) (11)
Conditions of slave life and the transition to freedom : technical papers (1992) (11)
Historiography and Retrospective Econometrics (1970) (10)
On capitalism & democracy (2007) (10)
Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height.. (1982) (8)
Economists and History@@@Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery.@@@Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods: A Supplement. (1974) (8)
The extension of life in developed countries and its implications for social policy in the twenty-first century. (2000) (8)
Simon S. Kuznets: April 30, 1901-July 9, 1985 (2000) (8)
Capitalism & democracy in 2040 (2007) (6)
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. Technical Papers, Volume I: Markets and Production; Volume II: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom. (1994) (5)
Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. Technical Papers, Volume I: Markets and Production; Volume II: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom. (1994) (5)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Why the Twentieth Century Was So Remarkable (2004) (4)
Economic development, the family, and income distribution: Afterword: Some notes on the scientific methods of Simon Kuznets by Robert William Fogel (1989) (4)
Toward a New Synthesis on the Role of Economic Issues in the Political Realignment of the 1850s (1992) (4)
Human Capital and Institutions: Biotechnology and the Burden of Age-Related Diseases (2009) (4)
The Fourth Great Awakening and the Political Realignment of the 1990s (1995) (4)
Review Essay@@@Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery@@@Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods (1976) (3)
Further Comments on the Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth (2010) (3)
Foreword: Toward an Era of Longevity and Wealth (2007) (3)
Cliometrics and Culture: Some Recent Developments in the Historiography of Slavery (1977) (3)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century (2004) (3)
Using Secular Health Trends to Forecast the Scope of the Retirement and Health Problems in 2040 and Beyond (1997) (3)
Looking at History through Mathematics. N. Rashevsky. M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1968. xviii + 199 pp., illus. $10 (1969) (2)
Height, Health, and Mortality in Continental Europe, 1700-2100 (2011) (2)
Current Directions in Economic History (1972) (2)
Capitalist Masters, Bourgeois Slaves@@@Time on the Cross. I: The Economics of American Negro Slavery@@@Time on the Cross. II: Evidence and Methods: A Supplement (1975) (2)
Front Matter ("Preface") (2013) (2)
Reconsidering Expectations of Economic Growth after (2005) (2)
Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger (2012) (1)
Was What Ail'd Ya' What Kill'd Ya'? (2011) (1)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: The Persistence of Misery in Europe and America before 1900 (2004) (1)
The Changing Body: Investigating the interaction of biological, demographic, and economic variables from fragmentary data (2011) (1)
Have the Extent and the Impact of Chronic Malnutrition been Underestimated? A Theory of Technophysio Evolution and its Implications for Nutritional Standards (1998) (1)
The Specification Problem in Economic History: A Correction (1968) (1)
Arthritis: Changes in Its Prevalence during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2009) (1)
Title : Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History : A Volume to Honor (1992) (1)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Appendix (2004) (1)
Aging: Biology and Behavior@@@Aging: Social Change@@@Aging: Stability and Change in the Family (1983) (1)
Book Review:Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century (1961) (1)
Canals and Economic Development. By Carter Goodrich, Julius Rubin, H. Jerome Cranmer, and Harvey H. Segal. New York, Columbia University Press, 1961. Pp. x + 303. $7.50 (1963) (1)
Measuring Slavery (1975) (1)
High performing Asian economies: retrospect and prospect. (2006) (1)
Secular Trends in Physiological Capital: Implications for Equity in Health Care (2003) (1)
Urban Politics and Big-City Construction in Late-Nineteenth- Century America (1992) (1)
China’s prospects for future growth (2014) (1)
Time on the Cross and Vol. 1: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. and Vol. 2: Evidence and Methods - A Supplement (1976) (1)
Evidence from the Grand Trunk and Great Western Railway Companies (1992) (1)
The Early History of the NBER (2013) (1)
Officers and Board Members (2014) (0)
Books Received (1973) (0)
Real Wealth Lies in Men (2007) (0)
The changing body: technophysio evolution in Britain, Europe and the United States since 1700. Our changing bodies: 300 years of technophysio evolution (2006) (0)
Time on the Cross: Vol. 1. The Economics of American Negro Slavery.@@@Time on the Cross: Vol. 2. Evidence and Methods. (1976) (0)
CHAPTER NINE Toward a New Synthesis on the Role of Economic Issues in the Political Realignment of the 185o's (1994) (0)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Tragedies and Miracles in the Third World (2004) (0)
Markets and production : technical papers (1992) (0)
James C. Riley. Sickness, Recovery, and Death: A History and Forecast of Ill Health. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 1989. Pp. xvi, 295. $27.50 (1991) (0)
Long-Term Unemployment and Retirement in (2016) (0)
Further Aspects of the Legacy of Simon Kuznets (2013) (0)
9. Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings (2019) (0)
Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs (1997) (0)
Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Robert W. Fogel (2004) (0)
Models for the Historian: Looking at History through Mathematics . N. Rashevsky. M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1968. xviii + 199 pp., illus. $10. (1969) (0)
Data on the Antebellum South (1972) (0)
Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865–1914. By Robert Higgs. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. x + 208. $14.95. (1978) (0)
The Use of National Income Accounting to Study Comparative Economic Growth (2013) (0)
The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: References (2004) (0)
Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: “The anatomy of exploitation” (1995) (0)
The Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets (2013) (0)
Front matter, acknowledgments, table of contents (2011) (0)
Growing Pains: The Sociology of Aging.@@@Aging: Biology and Behavior.@@@Aging: Social Change.@@@Aging: Stability and Change in the Family. (1983) (0)
The American Experience of Technophysio Evolution (2011) (0)
Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Trends in Physiological Capital (2012) (0)
Guest Editors’ Foreword (1982) (0)
The Emergence of National Income Accounting as a Tool of Economic Policy (2013) (0)
Technophysio Evolution and Human Health in England and Wales since 1700 (2011) (0)
American Economic Association Catching up with the Economy (0)
Books Received (1974) (0)
IX. The EiBciency EjOFeets of Federal Land Policy, 1850-1900: A Report of Some Provisional Findings (2015) (0)
Introduction: The Amazing Twentieth Century (2013) (0)
Explaining the Decline in American Fertility in the Nineteenth Century (1992) (0)
Problems of Equity in Health Care (2004) (0)
The Quarter Century since the Death of Simon Kuznets (2013) (0)
Acknowledgments, References, Index (2013) (0)
Glossary of Technical Terms (2004) (0)
Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: “Notes on the social saving controversy” (1995) (0)
Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Afterword (2012) (0)
Bibliography of Robert W. Fogel's Publications, 1960-1994 (1994) (0)
The Mathematical Social Science Board (2015) (0)
Which Road to the Past? Two Views of the Past? Two Views of History (1985) (0)
The Changing Body: Conclusion (2011) (0)
[Principal determinants of fertility in rural areas of Paraguay: the case of Itapua] (1994) (0)
Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Changes in Disparities and Chronic Diseases through the Course of the Twentieth Century (2012) (0)
Robert W. Fogel: Interviewed by Samuel H. Williamson and John S. Lyons (2008) (0)
The Rise of Academic Economists before World War I (2013) (0)
Can We Afford Longevity (2000) (0)
Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Some Common Problems in Analysis and Measurement (2012) (0)
The Changing Body: References (2011) (0)
Fine, Arthur 30 Finley, MI 53 Fishburn, PC 133, 140,151 Fodor. J. 250, 271 (2001) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Quantifying History@@@The Dimensions of Quantitative Research in History (1974) (0)
The Effect of the Tariff on Iron in the United States, 1847-1859: The Estimation of a General Equilibrium System with Non-traded Goods (1969) (0)
BHR volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1973) (0)
The Analysis of Long-term Trends in Nutritional Status, Mortality, and Economic Growth (2011) (0)
Postscript: How Long Can We Live? (2004) (0)
Sickness, Recovery, and Death: A History and Forecast of Ill Health. (1991) (0)

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