Quem foi Robert Fogel?
Robert William Fogel nasceu em 1926 em Nova York estudou nas universidades de Cornell e Columbia, doutorou-se em John Hopkins. Este economista foi professor de História Económica e as Universidades de Rochester, Chicago, Harvard e Cambridge. Obteve o Prémio Nobel de Economia em 1993 compartido com Douglass C. Norte por um novo método de investigação da história económica aplicando a teoria económica e métodos quantitativos para explicar o cambio económico e institucional.
Principais obras e papers
Fogel, Robert W. “Forword; The American Economic Review” May 1998.
Fogel, Robert W. “A Theory of Technophysio Evolution, with Some Implications for Forecasting Population, Health Care Costs, and Pension Costs.” Costa, Dora L. Demography. February 1997. p.49-66.
Fogel, Robert W. “The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today: Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth.” NBER working papers. March 1994.
Fogel, Robert W. “Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy.” NBER working paper, February 1994. p.26.
Fogel, Robert W. “Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy.” American Economic Review. June 1994. p.369-95.
Fogel, Robert W. “Bibliography of Robert W. Fogel’s Publications, 1960-1994.” Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 1994. p.181-84.
Fogel, Robert W. “Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death.” Wimmer, Larry T.; June 1992. p.34.
Fogel, Robert W. “Toward a New Synthesis on the Role of Economic Issues in the Political Realignment of the 1850’s.” NBER working paper, January 1992.
Fogel, Robert W. “The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America: Timing and Mechanisms.” Favorites of Fortunes: Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution,1991. p.33-71.
Fogel, Robert W. “New Sources and New Techniques for the Study of Secular Trends in Nutritional Status, Health, Mortality, and the Process of Aging.” NBER working papers, May 1991.
Fogel, Robert W. “Modeling Complex Dynamic Interactions: The Role of Intergenerational, Cohort, and Period Processes and of Conditional Events in the Political Realignment of the 1850’s.” NBER working paper, March 1990. p.63.
Fogel, Robert W. “Second thoughts on the European escape from hunger: famines, price elasticities, entitlements, chronic malnutrition, and mortality rates” NBER working paper series on historical factors in long-run growth; working paper no. 1 Working paper series on historical factors in long-run growth (National Bureau of Economic Research) Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989.
Fogel, Robert W. “Some Notes on the Scientific Methods of Simon Kuznets.” NBER working paper, December 1987.
References:
Karier, Thomas (2011). Intellectual Capital – Forty years of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
