Born: 1927-07-01 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American economist and historian (1926–2013)
Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian 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 (CPE) at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known as an advocate of new economic history (cliometrics) – the use of quantitative methods in history.
Awarded on: 1993-10-12
"for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change"
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