Professor Robert Fogel.
2004 Visit to Cornell by Nobel Laureate
Robert Fogel, Cornell '48
On October 18, 2004, Robert Fogel of the University of Chicago, Nobel laureate in Economics, and '48 graduate of Cornell gave a public lecture, titled "Changes in the Process of Aging during the Twentieth Century," as a part of the University Lecture Series. This web site commemorates his homecoming visit. Professor Fogel is the author of Railroads and American Economic Growth (1964); Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) (with Stanley L. Engerman); Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (1989); The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (2000); and The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective (2003). His most recent book is entitled The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (2004).**
Cornell Chronicle Articles:
Volume
36, Number 9, October 14, 2004
Volume 36, Number 11,
October 28, 2004
Lecture:
"Changes in the Process of Aging during
the Twentieth Century"
Contributors:
Cornell University Lecture Series
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Economics Department
Policy Analysis and Management (PAM)
Center for the Study of Inequality
Center for the Study of Economy and Society
John Abowd, Edmund Ezra Day Professor (ILR School)
Francine Blau, Frances Perkins Professor (ILR School)
Ronald Ehrenberg, Irving M. Ives Professor (ILR School)