Word: fogel
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Perkins, who teaches a joint course in comparative economic history with Landes, Rosovsky and Robert W. Fogel, Burbank Professor of Political Economy, declined to comment further because the move has not been finalized...
There is a withering crossfire of pedantries in nearly all academic discussions of slavery and American blacks. Two years ago, in a book called Time on the Cross, Economist-Historians Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman accumulated a mass of data on antebellum life in the South. They fed their statistics into computers and came up with an astonishing portrait of slavery as a highly rational and efficient system that gave the South considerable economic growth and a high standard of living for all Southerners, both black and white. While admitting the immorality of slavery, Fogel and Engerman found that blacks...
...Fogel and Engerman thesis, rather weirdly cheerful, seemed a relapse back to something like the banjo school. It brought a fusillade of rebuttal, most of it convincing. Fogel and Engerman argued that blacks were willing collaborators in an un fair but workable capitalist system: owners got free labor, blacks got economic rewards and family stability if they played along...
Haskell, who is on leave from Rice this year to work at Yale, said yesterday that his respect for cliometrics and for Fogel "remain high," but added, "I can't help but be skeptical, because Fogel has not yet responded to his critics...
...Fogel, who is on leave this year at Cambridge University in England, could not be reached for comment yesterday