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Fogel Elected to American Philosophical
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Robert Fogel, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society at its annual meeting in April 2000. He was one of 42 resident members and five foreign members elected to the society last year.
Fogel received the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He also is the author or coauthor of 19 books, including the two-volume Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974), which pioneered statistical methods for analyzing the way the American slave system operated.
Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned society in the United States. Its members comprise five branches of scholarly inquiry: mathematical and physical sciences; biological sciences; social sciences; humanities; and the arts, learned professions, and public affairs.––A.R.
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