로버트 포겔

소개

로버트 윌리엄 포겔(Robert William Fogel, 1926년 7월 1일~2013년 6월 11일)은 미국의 경제사가였다. 그는 역사에서 양적 방법의 사용이라는 계량경제사의 지지자로 가장 잘 알려져 있다.

Robert William Fogel was an American economic historian 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.