Robert W. Fogel, University of Chicago
This annual event honors Simon Kuznets, the famous Belarusian-American economist who helped establish the Yale Economic Growth Center in 1961.
Robert W. Fogel
Robert Fogel was an economic historian at the University of Chicago who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1993 for his studies of slavery in the United States, and the role railroads played in the development of the economy. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize with Douglass C. North.
Fogel was recognized worldwide as an economic historian and scientist. Born in New York City in 1926 to Russian Jewish immigrants, he credited his parents with fostering his love of learning and his brilliant older brother for inspiring his intellectual pursuits. Fogel attended Cornell University, where his interests shifted from physics and chemistry to history and economics.