About
An economist and Harvard professor who applied statistics to the Civil War.
Before Fame
He earned a Ph.D in economics at Harvard.
Trivia
He published the influential paper 'The Economics of Slavery in the Antebellum South,' which basically said without the Civil War, slavery would have continued.
Family Life
He was married to the poet Adrienne Rich from 1953-1970.
Associated With
The Fox News anchor Lou Dobbs also studied Economics at Harvard.
