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    Quantitative Visionary: Illuminating the Past, Shaping the Future, Unlocking the Legacy of Robert Fogel
    Quantitative Visionary: Illuminating the Past, Shaping the Future, Unlocking the Legacy of Robert Fogel
    Quantitative Visionary: Illuminating the Past, Shaping the Future, Unlocking the Legacy of Robert Fogel
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    Quantitative Visionary: Illuminating the Past, Shaping the Future, Unlocking the Legacy of Robert Fogel

    By Fouad Sabry

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    Who is Quantitative Visionary


    Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian and scientist, and winner of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. As of his death, he was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics (CPE) at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known as an advocate of new economic history (cliometrics) - the use of quantitative methods in history.


    How you will benefit


    (I) Insights about the following:


    Chapter 1: Robert Fogel


    Chapter 2: Economic history


    Chapter 3: Slavery in the United States


    Chapter 4: Chicago school of economics


    Chapter 5: Cliometrics


    Chapter 6: Auxology


    Chapter 7: Antebellum South


    Chapter 8: Stanley Engerman


    Chapter 9: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips


    Chapter 10: Slave trade in the United States


    Chapter 11: Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery


    Chapter 12: John Komlos


    Chapter 13: Herbert Gutman


    Chapter 14: J. Steven Wilkins


    Chapter 15: Demographic history


    Chapter 16: Kenneth Sokoloff


    Chapter 17: The Slave Community


    Chapter 18: John R. Meyer


    Chapter 19: Slave breeding in the United States


    Chapter 20: Thomas McKeown (physician)


    Chapter 21: Anthropometric history


    Who this book is for


    Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Quantitative Visionary.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOne Billion Knowledgeable
    Release dateApr 20, 2024
    Quantitative Visionary: Illuminating the Past, Shaping the Future, Unlocking the Legacy of Robert Fogel

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