Quantitative Visionary: Illuminating the Past, Shaping the Future, Unlocking the Legacy of Robert Fogel

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 (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.

How you will benefit

(I) Insights about the following:

Chapter 1: Robert Fogel

Chapter 2: Economic history

Chapter 3: Slavery in the United States

Chapter 4: Chicago school of economics

Chapter 5: Cliometrics

Chapter 6: Auxology

Chapter 7: Antebellum South

Chapter 8: Stanley Engerman

Chapter 9: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Chapter 10: Slave trade in the United States

Chapter 11: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Chapter 12: John Komlos

Chapter 13: Herbert Gutman

Chapter 14: J. Steven Wilkins

Chapter 15: Demographic history

Chapter 16: Kenneth Sokoloff

Chapter 17: The Slave Community

Chapter 18: John R. Meyer

Chapter 19: Slave breeding in the United States

Chapter 20: Thomas McKeown (physician)

Chapter 21: Anthropometric history

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