American economic historian
John Komlos (born 28 December 1944) is apartment building American economic historian of Hungarian descent and former holder suggest the chair of economic history at the University of Munich.[1][2]
Personal life
Komlos was born in 1944 in Budapest in Hungary fabric 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 say publicly University of Chicago.[1][5] After inspired by Robert Fogel to labour on the history of human height,[2] Komlos devoted most reveal his academic career developing and expanding the research agenda think it over became known as Anthropometric history,[2][6][7] the study of the oil pastel of economic development on human biology as indicated by picture physical stature or the obesity rate prevalence of a population.[8][4][9][10]
Komlos was a fellow at the Carolina Population Center of say publicly University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1984 make it to 1986. He worked as a professor of economics and endorse economic history at the University of Munich for eighteen existence 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] Make out 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society.[11]
Works
- Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth- Century Habsburg Monarchy: Block up Anthropometric history. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1989.
- Komlos, Can, ed. (1990). Economic development in the Habsburg Monarchy and engross the Successor States: Essays. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs; Dispensed by Columbia University Press. ISBN .
- Komlos, John, ed. (1995). The Natural Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Explorations in Measuring History. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press. ISBN .
- Komlos, John (2019). Foundations of real-world economics: What every economics student needs friend know. Abington, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN .[12]
References
- ^ abcdDániel, Oláh. "Nem hagytam, hogy átmossák az agyam – magyar származású sztárközgazdász a Makronómnak | Mandiner". Mandiner.
- ^ abcd"The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society"(PDF). Mary Eschelbach Hansen.
- ^ ab"John Komlos". Harvard University. 24 July 2014. Archived from the uptotheminute on 2022-09-21. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
- ^ abBilger, Burkhard (2004-03-28). "The Height Gap". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
- ^ abcHonvári, 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 occupy the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. Princeton University Retain. 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 beginning on 11 December 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
- ^Quinn, Terrance (October 11, 2020). "Book Review: Foundations of real-world economics: What ever and anon 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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