John Komlos

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John Komlos
Born (1944-12-28) 28 December 1944 (age 79)
Budapest, Hungary
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
InstitutionsUniversity of Munich
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
FieldEconomic history
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
InfluencesRobert Fogel
ContributionsEconomics 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]

Personal life[edit]

Komlos was born in 1944 in Budapest in Hungary during the Holocaust.[3] After becoming refugees during the 1956 revolution, his family fled to the United States where Komlos finally grew up in Chicago.[3][4]

Career[edit]

Komlos received a PhD in history in 1978 and a second PhD in economics in 1990 from the University of Chicago.[1][5] He was inspired by Robert Fogel to work on the history of human height,[2] Komlos devoted most of his academic career developing and expanding the research agenda that became known as Anthropometric history,[2][6][7] 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.[8][4][9][10]

Komlos was a fellow at the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1984 to 1986. He worked as a professor of economics and of economic history at the University of Munich for eighteen years before his retirement.[5][1]He also taught as a visitor at Harvard, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as in Vienna and St. Gallen.[11][12]

In 2003, Komlos founded Economics and Human Biology, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on biological economics, economics in the context of human biology and health.[2][5][1]

Through his research, he became a humanistic economist, recognizing that conventional economic models often inadequately represent the complexities of real-world economic behavior.[13] Following the 2008 financial crisis, his focus shifted towards analyzing contemporary economic issues through a humanistic perspective.[14]

In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society.[15][16]

Works[edit]

  • 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. ISBN 9780880331777.
  • Komlos, John, ed. (1995). The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Anthropometric History. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press. ISBN 9780813320557.
  • 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 978-1351584715.[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Dániel, Oláh. "Nem hagytam, hogy átmossák az agyam – magyar származású sztárközgazdász a Makronómnak | Mandiner". Mandiner.
  2. ^ a b c d "The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society" (PDF). Mary Eschelbach Hansen.
  3. ^ a b "John Komlos". Harvard University. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  4. ^ a b Bilger, Burkhard (2004-03-28). "The Height Gap". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-12-26. Fogel, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993, is the man most responsible for Komlos's interest in height.
  5. ^ a b c Honvári, Patricia (2021). "Amit minden közgazdaságot tanulónak tudnia kell". Economic Review; Budapest. 68 (3). doi:10.18414/KSZ.2021.3.332. S2CID 233705016. ProQuest 2503974050.
  6. ^ Komlos, John (1989). Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. Princeton University Press. pp. 3–20.
  7. ^ "Magyar származású közgazdász írta meg az emberarcú kapitalizmus krédóját | Mandiner". mandiner.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  8. ^ Shute, Nancy (2010-10-25). "Measuring A Country's Health By Its Height". NPR. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  9. ^ Paul Krugman (2007-06-15). "America comes up short". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  10. ^ Dániel, Oláh. "Nem hagytam, hogy átmossák az agyam – magyar származású sztárközgazdász a Makronómnak | Mandiner". mandiner.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-10-31.
  11. ^ "John Komlos - Routledge & CRC Press Author Profile". www.routledge.com. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  12. ^ "JOHN KOMLOS". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  13. ^ "Column: Why a $15 minimum wage should scare us | PBS NewsHour". web.archive.org. 2024-02-24. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  14. ^ "Are Black Women Getting Smaller?". ABC News. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  15. ^ "2013 Fellows". The Cliometric Society: 2013 Fellows. Archived from the original on 11 December 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  16. ^ "European men outstrip Americans". bbc.co.uk. 2004-04-14. Retrieved 2024-03-13.
  17. ^ 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. S2CID 225782011.

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