4 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Fogel

Robert William Fogel was born in 1947 in Washington, D.C., where he graduated from St. Albans School in 1965. He received his B.S. degree from Princeton University in 1969 and his Ph.D Read more

from Columbia University in 1973, both in economics. From 1973 to 1981, he taught at the University of Chicago, where he was promoted to full professor in 1979. In 1981 he joined the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he is currently a professor emeritus.

His research has spanned a wide range of topics in the social sciences, including economic history, economics of national income determination, environmental economics, and development economics. His research has been published in leading academic journals and has received numerous awards, including the John Bates Clark Medal (1981), the National Science Foundation's Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching (1986), the American Economic Association's William R. Nelson Prize Paper Award (1988), and an honorary doctorate degree from Cambridge University (1993).

He is currently research director for the NBER's Education Resources Information Center (ERIC).

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My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparation for a life in science. Because of the Depression, these schools were able to attract a remarkably talented and dedicated collection of teachers who encouraged their students to strive for the highest levels of accomplishment. Robert Fogel
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The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two. Robert Fogel
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People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that. Robert Fogel