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
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
Komlos received a PhD in history in 1978 and a second PhD in economics in 1990 from the University of Chicago.[1][5] After 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]
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] In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society.[11]
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. 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.[12]
References
- ^ a b c d Dániel, Oláh. "Nem hagytam, hogy átmossák az agyam – magyar származású sztárközgazdász a Makronómnak | Mandiner". Mandiner.
- ^ a b c d "The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society" (PDF). Mary Eschelbach Hansen.
- ^ a b "John Komlos". Harvard University. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Komlos, John (1989). Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. Princeton University Press. pp. 3–20.
- ^ "Magyar származású közgazdász írta meg az emberarcú kapitalizmus krédóját | Mandiner". mandiner.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ Shute, Nancy (2010-10-25). "Measuring A Country's Health By Its Height". NPR. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ Paul Krugman (2007-06-15). "America comes up short". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ Dániel, Oláh. "Nem hagytam, hogy átmossák az agyam – magyar származású sztárközgazdász a Makronómnak | Mandiner". mandiner.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ "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. S2CID 225782011.
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