John Komlos
John Komlos | |
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| Born | 28 December 1944 |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Economic history |
| Institutions | University of Munich University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Influences | Robert Fogel |
| Contributions | Economics and Human Biology |
John Komlos (born 28 December 1944, Budapest) is an American economic historian of Hungarian descent and former holder of the chair of economic history at the University of Munich.[1][2]
Career
Komlos received a PhD in history in 1978 and a second PhD in economics in 1990 from the University of Chicago.[1][2] He was a fellow at the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1984 to 1986. Komlos also taught at such institutions as Harvard University, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Vienna, and the Vienna University of Economics.[1] He was professor of economics and of economic history at the University of Munich for eighteen years before his retirement.[1][2]
In 2003, Komlos founded Economics and Human Biology in 2003.[1][2]
In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society in 2013.[3]
Works
- Louis Kossuth in America. Buffalo, New York: East European Institute. 1973.
- Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth- Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric history. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1989.
- Komlos, John, ed. (1990). Economic development in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Successor States: Essays. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs; Distributed by Columbia University Press.
- Komlos, John, ed. (1995). The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press.
- Foundations of real-world economics: What every economics student needs to know. Abington, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2015.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Amit minden közgazdaságot tanulónak tudnia kell".
- ^ a b c d Dániel, Oláh. "Nem hagytam, hogy átmossák az agyam – magyar származású sztárközgazdász a Makronómnak | Mandiner". Mandiner.
- ^ "2013 Fellows". The Cliometric Society: 2013 Fellows. Archived from the original on 11 December 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
- ^ Quinn, Terrance (October 11, 2020). "Book Review: Foundations of real-world economics: What every economics student needs to know (2nd ed.), by Komlos, J." The American Economist. 65 (2): 348–351. doi:10.1177/0569434520933702 – via DOI.org (Crossref).
