John Komlos - Biography

John Komlos (born December 28, 1944 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American economic historian at the University of Munich where he is professor of economics and chair of economic history. He currently serves as a Visiting Professor of Economics at Duke University. In the 1980s, Komlos was instrumental in the emergence of anthropometric history, the study of the effect of economic development on human biological outcomes such as physical stature.

Career

Komlos received a Ph.D in history and economics at the University of Chicago where he was influenced by the Nobel Prize winning economic historian Robert Fogel to research the economic history of human physical stature. Komlos named this new discipline "anthropometric history" in 1989. He was a fellow at the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1984 to 1986. Komlos taught at such institutions as the University of Vienna, Duke University, the Vienna University of Economics, University of St. Gallen, and North Carolina State University. He has been teaching at the University of Munich since 1992. He is the founding editor of Economics and Human Biology in 2003.

Selected publications

Books

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Articles

External links

• Home page
• Guest on National Public Radio, The Connection
• Economics and Human Biology
• Burkhard Bilger , “The Height Gap Europeans are getting taller; why aren’t we?” The New Yorker, April 5, 2004, pp 38–45. [1]