Nobel Lecture December 7, 1993 “Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise.” Or was it an old man? A guru, perhaps. Or a griot soothing restless children. I have heard this story, or one exactly like it, in the lore of several cultures. “Once upon a time there was an…

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I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts – not because my family had any connection with higher education, but because my father was a manager at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in a nearby town and Cambridge was the nearest hospital – in 1920. In the ensuing years we moved a number of times as a…

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Interview transcript Professor Robert Fogel, very welcome to this interview. It’s a great honour to meet you. Robert Fogel: It’s a great pleasure to be here. I wanted to start off, to ask you a little bit about your background. Your parents were immigrants to the United States in the early 1920s.…

Transcript from an interview with Professor Robert W. Fogel at the 1st Meeting of Laureates in Economic Sciences in Lindau, Germany, September 1-4, 2004. Interviewer is freelance journalist Marika Griehsel. Professor Robert Fogel, very welcome to this interview. It’s a great honour…