Robert Fogel won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993 for developing a technique of running large amounts of numerical data through computers to draw conclusions. He applied this method in his book Time on the Cross, where he argued that slaves in the American South were treated better economically than free industrial workers in the North. However, historians criticized this idea because he overlooked the psychological impact of slavery. Currently, Fogel believes that liberals should stop complaining about economic inequality if poor people today have access to similar amenities as the rich.

1. By: Christian Leonard

2. Early life
 He was born in year 1926 in NY after
his parents and brother migrated
from Russia. His parents emphasized
education and put Robert and his
brother through school. Robert’s
brother was a big influence on him.

3. Nobel Prize
 RobertFogel won a Nobel Prize in
1993 for his unique way of finding
facts.

4.  Thismethod of discovering facts
consists of running tons and tons of
numerical data through a computer
which will process it down and allow
one to draw conclusions

5.  Inhis book Time on the Cross he used
this technique to “prove” that beside
psychological treatment slaves in the
south where tested better than free
northern industrial workers.

6.  This idea met much resistance from
historians and from reading his book
I have learned that in truth the key
that you need to know upon which his
logic falls apart is that he says…

7.  Something to the effect of besides
psychological treatment this being a
key point easily overlooked.

8. His current political views are “If poor
people today grow nearly as tall, live
almost as long and surf roughly as
many cable channels as rich people,
shouldn’t liberals stop whining?”

9.  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.little
brown…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