Robert Fogel

By: Christian Leonard

Early life

He was born in year 1926 in NY afterhis parents and brother migratedfrom Russia. His parents emphasizededucation and put Robert and hisbrother through school. Robert’sbrother was a big influence on him.

Nobel Prize

Robert Fogel won a Nobel Prize in1993 for his unique way of findingfacts.

This method of discovering factsconsists of running tons and tons ofnumerical data through a computerwhich will process it down and allowone to draw conclusions

In his book Time on the Cross he usedthis technique to “prove” that besidepsychological treatment slaves in thesouth where tested better than freenorthern industrial workers.

This idea met much resistance fromhistorians and from reading his bookI have learned that in truth the keythat you need to know upon which hislogic falls apart is that he says…

Something to the effect of besidespsychological treatment this being akey point easily overlooked.

His current political views are “If poorpeople today grow nearly as tall, livealmost as long and surf roughly asmany cable channels as rich people,shouldn’t liberals stop whining?”

Official Nobel Prize site. Robert W. Fogel Nobel Prize 1993<http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1993/fogel-autobio.html>

Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.Time on the Cross.New York:EP.littlebrown…1989

Matthew. Miller.”I’m O.K. You’re O.K.”New York Times8 Oct.2000,

C.VANN.WOODWARD.”THE PARADOX OF SLAVERY”New York Times5 Nov.1989