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The paper, based on his PhD thesis, was essentially a summary of what was to be his first book, Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History, which was published two years later. It is this paper that I use in the classroom as a critical tool to help students develop a long-term perspective on economic and social change.

His first major book, based on his Ph.D. dissertation, was Railroads and American Economic Growth. Fogel’s work on railroads is a first-rate, extremely detailed application of one of the most important principles of economics: that there is a substitute for virtually everything. So rather than just accepting the idea that railroads were so.

Cliometrics and Railroads and American Economic Growth. Fogel's first major study involving cliometrics was Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History (1964). This tract sought to quantify the railroads' contribution to U.S. economic growth in the 19th century. Its argument and method were both rebuttals to a long.

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A significant foray into treating counterfactual scenarios seriously was made by the economic historian Robert Fogel. In his 1964 book Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History, Fogel tried to use quantitative methods to imagine what the U.S. economy would have been like in 1890 had there been no railroads.

Book Reviews: Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History. By Robert W. Fogel Article Sidebar. PDF Main Article Content. Thomas C. Cochran. University of Pennsylvania Article Details. Issue Pennsylvania History vol. 33, no. 1, January 1966 Section Book Reviews.

Using a sophisticated geographic information system data network, digitized maps, and advanced trade theory, they looked at how market access raised agricultural land values and compared their findings with those of the Nobel laureate economist Robert Fogel in his 1964 study Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History.

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The Interstate Commerce Act and the Commission spawned by the Act represented the first halting steps towards coping with the monopoly power that was a consequence of the Second Industrial revolution. In this paper, the views of prominent economic and legal thinkers regarding the proper legal framework for railroads are reviewed.

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Cliometrics and Railroads and American Economic Growth. Fogel's first major study involving cliometrics was Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History (1964). This tract sought to quantify the railroads' contribution to U.S. economic growth in the 19th century. Its argument and method were each rebuttals to a long.