Word: fogel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the historians involved admit the controversy is unusually intense because of present concerns over racial issues, Fogel's detractors and defenders both say that the final evaluation of the book's worth rests on more esoteric issues, like the accuracy of Fogel's comparison of pre-Civil War Northern agriculture, which was multi-crop, and Southern agriculture, which grew only cotton...
...Fogel received tenure at Harvard last year in the Economics Department and the History Department, where senior faculty support for him, and for quantitative history has apparently not diminished...
Kenneth J. Arrow, Conant University Professor, said yesterday that he is still "very impressed with Fogel" and that Fogel has a "diligence and expertness at finding a broad base of information...
Arrow said that Fogel's central contention in "Time on the Cross"--that plantation agriculture was "at least as efficient as Northern agriculture"--has not been seriously challenged in the several books that have recently come out attacking the book...
...controversy over the book partly stemmed from Fogel's statistical methods, Rosovsky said, which many conventional historians either "don't understand or don't like...