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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
. 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 a leading advocate of
New economic history
or
cliometrics
—the use of quantitative methods in history.
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