Quantitative Visionary: Illuminating the Past, Shaping the Future, Unlocking the Legacy of Robert Fogel
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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
Who this book is for
Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Quantitative Visionary.
