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Robert Fogel

1926 - 2013

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Robert William Fogel (; July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013) was an American economic historian 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Fogel has received more than 362,944 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Fogel is the 139th most popular economist (down from 123rd in 2019), the 1,946th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,643rd in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert Fogel ranks 139 out of 414. Before him are Christopher A. Sims, Robert C. Merton, Angus Deaton, W. Arthur Lewis, Clive Granger, and James Mirrlees. After him are Dani Rodrik, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, James Heckman, Vernon L. Smith, and Gustav von Schmoller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Robert Fogel ranks 112. Before him are Roger Corman, Riz Ortolani, Shin Sang-ok, Rafi Eitan, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, and Abdul Rahim Hatif. After him are Irene Camber, Jimmy Savile, Henry Molaison, Sydney Chaplin, Galina Vishnevskaya, and Hans Werner Henze. Among people deceased in 2013, Robert Fogel ranks 87. Before him are Rossana Podestà, Stéphane Hessel, Arthur Danto, Ken Norton, Jacques Vergès, and Abdul Rahim Hatif. After him are José Froilán González, Otto Sander, Masao Uchino, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, James Avery, and Sergei Belov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Fogel ranks 1,946 out of 20,380. Before him are Avery Brundage (1887), Sequoyah (1770), Lee Majors (1939), Carl Andre (1935), Robert E. Park (1864), and Donna Karan (1948). After him are Billy Dee Williams (1937), Dean Koontz (1945), Langston Hughes (1902), Bo Diddley (1928), James Newton Howard (1951), and Eric Adams (1952).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Robert Fogel ranks 44. Before him are Robert J. Shiller (1946), Alan Greenspan (1926), George Stigler (1911), Eugene Fama (1939), Christopher A. Sims (1942), and Robert C. Merton (1944). After him are James Heckman (1944), Vernon L. Smith (1927), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Robert F. Engle (1942), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), and Peter Diamond (1940).

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