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Speaker's Biography:
Robert Fogel
Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences; Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
Robert Fogel is a Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences, the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions in the Graduate School of Business, Director of the Center for Population Economics, and a member of the Department of Economics and of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is also co-director of the Program on Cohort Studies at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His principal research has focused on the secular decline in mortality and the changing pattern of aging over the life cycle in the United States. His other current research includes a study of the high-performing Asian economies, research into nutrition and longevity, an assessment of the twentieth-century historical debates over American slavery, and historical work on the development of the discipline of economics in the twentieth century. Fogel received his Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Panels:
Nobel Laureates in Economic Science Debate the Economy’s Strength
China and the WTO: Hong Kong and Regional Prosperity
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