Robert Fogel
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American economist, historian
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- PhD Economics Johns Hopkins University
- Bachelors History Cornell University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)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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- Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History. (1964) (703)
- Time on the cross : the economics of American Negro slavery (1974) (511)
- The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 (2005) (488)
- 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) (327)
- Railroads And American Economic Growth (1964) (305)
- New findings on secular trends in nutrition and mortality: Some implications for population theory (1997) (305)
- Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings (1984) (280)
- A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs (1997) (259)
- The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100 (2004) (230)
- The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (2000) (204)
- The Changing Body (2011) (195)
- Catching Up with the Economy (1999) (195)
- Health, Nutrition, and Economic Growth* (2004) (187)
- Secular changes in American and British stature and nutrition. (1983) (159)
- 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) (150)
- The Reinterpretation of American Economic History. (1972) (138)
- 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) (123)
- Notes on the Social Saving Controversy (1979) (117)
- Slavery's Cross Resurrected-and Recast@@@Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery. (1990) (105)
- Explaining the Relative Efficiency of Slave Agriculture in the Antebellum South: Reply (1977) (101)
- Which Road to the Past?: Two Views of History (1985) (98)
- 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) (61)
- The Limits of Quantitative Methods in History (1975) (58)
- The Dimensions of Quantitative Research in History (1972) (58)
- A Life Of Learning (1996) (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) (39)
- 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)
- Secular Trends in Physiological Capital: Implications for Equity in Health Care (2003) (34)
- Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics (2013) (34)
- Secular changes in American and British stature and nutrition. (1983) (33)
- Technophysio evolution and the measurement of economic growth (2004) (32)
- Why China is Likely to Achieve its Growth Objectives (2006) (32)
- Three Tests for Measuring Unjustified Disparate Impacts in Organ Transplantation: The Problem of "Included Variable" Bias (2005) (30)
- 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) (29)
- 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) (27)
- Reconsidering Expectations of Economic Growth after World War II from the Perspective of 2004 (2005) (24)
- A Model for the Explanation of Industrial Expansion during the Nineteenth Century: With an Application to the American Iron Industry (1969) (24)
- “Scientific” History and Traditional History (1982) (24)
- Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases During the Course of the 20th Century (2005) (24)
- Changes in the Physiology of Aging During the Twentieth Century (2005) (23)
- Railroads as an Analogy to the Space Effort: Some Economic Aspects (1966) (22)
- 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)
- Quantitative Economic History: An Interim Evaluation Past Trends and Present Tendencies (1971) (20)
- 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)
- 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)
- Some Notes on the Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets (1987) (16)
- FORECASTING THE DEMAND FOR HEALTH CARE IN OECD NATIONS AND CHINA (2003) (15)
- Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity (2012) (15)
- Three Phases of Cliometric Research on Slavery and Its Aftermath (1975) (14)
- Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (2004) (14)
- Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and North America since 1700 (2014) (14)
- Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Diseases During the Course of the 20th Century (2005) (14)
- Who Gets Health Care? (2003) (14)
- Diet, Health and Work Intensity in England and Wales, 1700-1914 (2010) (14)
- The Problem of Audience in Historical Economics: Rhetorical Thoughts on a Text by Robert Fogel (1985) (13)
- Economic and technological development and their relationships to body size and productivity (2002) (13)
- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery.@@@Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods. (1975) (13)
- The Global Struggle to Escape from Chronic Malnutrition since 1700 (1997) (13)
- 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)
- Changes in the Disparities in Chronic Disease During the Course of the Twentieth Century (2004) (12)
- High Performing Asian Economies (2004) (12)
- The New Economic History: Recent Papers on Methodology.@@@The Reinterpretation of American Economic History. (1973) (11)
- Conditions of slave life and the transition to freedom : technical papers (1992) (11)
- On capitalism & democracy (2007) (10)
- Historiography and Retrospective Econometrics (1970) (10)
- Economists and History@@@Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery.@@@Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods: A Supplement. (1974) (8)
- Simon S. Kuznets: April 30, 1901-July 9, 1985 (2000) (8)
- The extension of life in developed countries and its implications for social policy in the twenty-first century. (2000) (8)
- Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height.. (1982) (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)
- Human Capital and Institutions: Biotechnology and the Burden of Age-Related Diseases (2009) (4)
- Toward a New Synthesis on the Role of Economic Issues in the Political Realignment of the 1850s (1992) (4)
- The Fourth Great Awakening and the Political Realignment of the 1990s (1995) (4)
- 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)
- Foreword: Toward an Era of Longevity and Wealth (2007) (3)
- Using Secular Health Trends to Forecast the Scope of the Retirement and Health Problems in 2040 and Beyond (1997) (3)
- Review Essay@@@Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery@@@Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods (1976) (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)
- Further Comments on the Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth (2010) (3)
- Height, Health, and Mortality in Continental Europe, 1700-2100 (2011) (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)
- Current Directions in Economic History (1972) (2)
- Reconsidering Expectations of Economic Growth after (2005) (2)
- Front Matter ("Preface") (2013) (2)
- Looking at History through Mathematics. N. Rashevsky. M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1968. xviii + 199 pp., illus. $10 (1969) (1)
- Book Review:Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century (1961) (1)
- The Changing Body: Investigating the interaction of biological, demographic, and economic variables from fragmentary data (2011) (1)
- The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: The Persistence of Misery in Europe and America before 1900 (2004) (1)
- China’s prospects for future growth (2014) (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)
- High performing Asian economies: retrospect and prospect. (2006) (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)
- Was What Ail'd Ya' What Kill'd Ya'? (2011) (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)
- Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger (2012) (1)
- Time on the Cross and Vol. 1: The Economics of American Negro Slavery. and Vol. 2: Evidence and Methods - A Supplement (1976) (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)
- Secular Trends in Physiological Capital: Implications for Equity in Health Care (2003) (1)
- The Specification Problem in Economic History: A Correction (1968) (1)
- The Early History of the NBER (2013) (1)
- Measuring Slavery (1975) (1)
- Urban Politics and Big-City Construction in Late-Nineteenth- Century America (1992) (1)
- Evidence from the Grand Trunk and Great Western Railway Companies (1992) (1)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- Glossary of Technical Terms (2004) (0)
- American Economic Association Catching up with the Economy (0)
- Data on the Antebellum South (1972) (0)
- [Principal determinants of fertility in rural areas of Paraguay: the case of Itapua] (1994) (0)
- Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs (1997) (0)
- The Changing Body: References (2011) (0)
- Explaining the Decline in American Fertility in the Nineteenth Century (1992) (0)
- The Emergence of National Income Accounting as a Tool of Economic Policy (2013) (0)
- Postscript: How Long Can We Live? (2004) (0)
- Markets and production : technical papers (1992) (0)
- 9. Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality since 1700: Some Preliminary Findings (2019) (0)
- IX. The EiBciency EjOFeets of Federal Land Policy, 1850-1900: A Report of Some Provisional Findings (2015) (0)
- Can We Afford Longevity (2000) (0)
- Bibliography of Robert W. Fogel's Publications, 1960-1994 (1994) (0)
- Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: “Notes on the social saving controversy” (1995) (0)
- Books Received (1973) (0)
- Acknowledgments, References, Index (2013) (0)
- The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: References (2004) (0)
- Guest Editors’ Foreword (1982) (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)
- Microcompetition with Foreign DNA and the Origin of Chronic Disease (reivew) (2005) (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)
- The American Experience of Technophysio Evolution (2011) (0)
- The Quarter Century since the Death of Simon Kuznets (2013) (0)
- BHR volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Front matter (1973) (0)
- Growing Pains: The Sociology of Aging.@@@Aging: Biology and Behavior.@@@Aging: Social Change.@@@Aging: Stability and Change in the Family. (1983) (0)
- Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Changes in Disparities and Chronic Diseases through the Course of the Twentieth Century (2012) (0)
- Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Afterword (2012) (0)
- Time on the Cross: Vol. 1. The Economics of American Negro Slavery.@@@Time on the Cross: Vol. 2. Evidence and Methods. (1976) (0)
- Front matter, acknowledgments, table of contents (2011) (0)
- Robert W. Fogel: Interviewed by Samuel H. Williamson and John S. Lyons (2008) (0)
- The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Tragedies and Miracles in the Third World (2004) (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)
- Further Aspects of the Legacy of Simon Kuznets (2013) (0)
- Which Road to the Past? Two Views of the Past? Two Views of History (1985) (0)
- Real Wealth Lies in Men (2007) (0)
- Technophysio Evolution and Human Health in England and Wales since 1700 (2011) (0)
- Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: “The anatomy of exploitation” (1995) (0)
- The Changing Body: Conclusion (2011) (0)
- CHAPTER NINE Toward a New Synthesis on the Role of Economic Issues in the Political Realignment of the 185o's (1994) (0)
- Fine, Arthur 30 Finley, MI 53 Fishburn, PC 133, 140,151 Fodor. J. 250, 271 (2001) (0)
- Quantifying History@@@The Dimensions of Quantitative Research in History (1974) (0)
- The Rise of Academic Economists before World War I (2013) (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)
- Long-Term Unemployment and Retirement in (2016) (0)
- Sickness, Recovery, and Death: A History and Forecast of Ill Health. (1991) (0)
- Interview with Nobel Prize Laureate Robert W. Fogel (2004) (0)
- The Use of National Income Accounting to Study Comparative Economic Growth (2013) (0)
- Problems of Equity in Health Care (2004) (0)
- Introduction: The Amazing Twentieth Century (2013) (0)
- The Mathematical Social Science Board (2015) (0)
- The Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets (2013) (0)
- Books Received (1974) (0)
- Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Trends in Physiological Capital (2012) (0)
- The Analysis of Long-term Trends in Nutritional Status, Mortality, and Economic Growth (2011) (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)
- Officers and Board Members (2014) (0)
- Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and Longevity: Some Common Problems in Analysis and Measurement (2012) (0)
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