John Komlos
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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) is an American economic historian of Hungarian descent and former holder of the chair of economic history at the University of Munich.[1][2] He is known for his academic works, majorly in the field of anthropometric history, which have been published in journals in five different disciplines such as American Economic Review, American Historical Review, American Journal of Human Biology, Statistical Methodology and Genus and Mathematical Population Studies.[3][4] According to the Handelsblatt ranking, he is the most cited scientist in Germany in the field of economic history.[5]
Personal life
Komlos was born in 1944 in Budapest during the Holocaust.[3] He became a refugee twelve years later during the 1956 revolution and grew up in Chicago.[3]
Career
Komlos received a PhD in history in 1978 and a second PhD in economics in 1990 from the University of Chicago[1][2] where he was influenced by his mentor, the Nobel-Prize winning economic historian Robert Fogel who suggested Komlos study the relationship between economic processes and human biology.[6] Since then, Komlos devoted most of his academic career developing and expanding this research agenda that became known as Anthropometric history[7][8], the study of the effect of economic development on human biology as indicated by the physical stature or the obesity rate prevalence of a population.[9][10] His scholarly works related to this field started to be cited in news portals such as BBC[11][12], The Guardian[13], The New Yorker[14], National Geographic[15], and the Scientific American.[16]
Komlos was a fellow at the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1984 to 1986. He also taught at institutions such as Harvard University, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Vienna, and the Vienna University of Economics.[1] He worked as a professor of economics and of economic history at the University of Munich for eighteen years before his retirement.[1][2]
In 2003, Komlos founded the Economics and Human Biology, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on biological economics, economics in the context of human biology and health.[1][2] In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society.[17]
Works
- 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.
- Komlos, John (2019). Foundations of real-world economics: What every economics student needs to know. Abington, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 1351584715.[18]
References
- ^ a b c d e Honvári, Patricia (2021). "Amit minden közgazdaságot tanulónak tudnia kell". Economic Review; Budapest. 68 (3). doi:10.18414/KSZ.2021.3.332.
- ^ a b c d Dániel, Oláh. "Nem hagytam, hogy átmossák az agyam – magyar származású sztárközgazdász a Makronómnak | Mandiner". Mandiner.
- ^ a b c "John Komlos". Harvard University. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ "Stature and Economic Growth". CESifo Economic Studies. 2015. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. John Komlos". University of Munich. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ Reilly, Peter J (2019-02-26). "Historian Argues Ronald Reagan's 1981 Tax Cut Led To Trumpism". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ Komlos, John (1989). Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. Princeton University Press. p. 3-20.
- ^ "Magyar származású közgazdász írta meg az emberarcú kapitalizmus krédóját | Mandiner". mandiner.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ Dániel, Oláh. "Nem hagytam, hogy átmossák az agyam – magyar származású sztárközgazdász a Makronómnak | Mandiner". mandiner.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ "The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society" (PDF). Mary Eschelbach Hansen.
- ^ "Turopean men outstrip Americans". BBC News. 2004-04-14. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ Hadhazy, Adam (2015-05-14). "Will humans keep getting taller?". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ Mckie, Robin (2004-04-04). "Americans shrinking as junk food takes its toll". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ "The height gap". The New Yorker. 2004-03-28. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ Pringle, Heather (2014-11-14). "Ears of Ancient Chinese Terra-Cotta Warriors Offer Clues to Their Creation". National Geographic. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ Makin, Simon (2016-08-01). "Tall Order--Heights in Other Countries Elevate but U.S. Stature Tops Off". Scientific American. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ "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).
