The Grunberg Lecture Series | The Twelveth Lecture
April 23, 1999
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| Professor Robert W. Fogel Department of Economics University of Chicago Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993 "The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism?" Professor Fogel won a Nobel Prize for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantiative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change. His foremost work concerns the role of the railways in the economic development of the United States, the importance of slavery as an institution and its economic role in the USA, and studies in historical demography. |
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