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  1. Vor 5 Tagen · Robert Fogel was one of the earliest and most forceful advocates for the use of quantitative methods and economic theory in the study of economic history and long-term economic change. He demonstrated through his work on the economic impact of the railroads and the...

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    Vor 5 Tagen · Skepticism about these claims eventually led to their debunking, most notably by Robert Fogel whose seminal work was also central to the emergence of cliometrics and inspired the first major controversy in the discipline. The flood of work that followed paints a more nuanced picture, generally assigning a larger growth and ...

  3. Vor 5 Tagen · An important consideration relating to estimates of the benefits of an innovation is what Robert Fogel called the axiom of indispensability (Fogel 1964, p. 10; cf. Rosenberg 1982, pp. 27–29). Fogel claimed that in the absence of the innovations that made the railroad successful, resources could possibly have been devoted to seeking ...

  4. Vor 4 Tagen · As the Nobel Laureate Robert Fogel has recently pointed out, "the conflict between vigorous economic growth and very limited improvements or reversals in the nutritional status and health of the majority of the {U.S.) population suggests that the modernization of the nineteenth century was a mixed blessing for those who lived through ...

  5. Vor 4 Tagen · Mr. Robert V. Fogel of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been appointed to coordinate Federal recovery operations in the affected areas. Additional designations may be made at a ...

  6. Vor 3 Tagen · That written wallop, relevant to this present assessment, occurred when I was asked to write an article on a book he co-wrote with the future Nobel laureate, Robert Fogel. I began by briefly summarizing each author’s past work. I ended Elton’s by positing the query of whether it was Thomas Cromwell behind the Henrician revolution ...

  7. Vor 4 Tagen · These Nobel laureates include Joshua Lederberg, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1958; Roald Hoffmann, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981; Robert Fogel, who won the ...