John Komlos

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. 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.

elected Publications

Books

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* (Ed.), cite book|title=Stature, Living Standards, and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History|location=Chicago|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|year=1994
* (Ed.), cite book|title=Classics of Anthropometric History: A Selected Anthology|coauthors=Timothy Cuff
location=St. Katharinen, Germany|publisher=Scripta Mercaturae|year=1998

Articles

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*cite journal|title=An Anthropometric History of Early-Modern France, 1666-1766|coauthors=Michel Hau and Nicolas Bourguinat|journal=European Review of Economic History|year=2003|issue=7|month=August|pages=159–189
*cite journal|title=The Biological Standard of Living in the Two Germanies|coauthors=Peter Kriwy|journal= German Economic Review|volume=4|year=2003|issue=4|pages=493–507
*cite journal|title=Access to Food and the Biological Standard of Living: Perspectives on the Nutritional Status of Native Americans|journal=American Economic Review|volume=91|issue=1|month=March|year=2003|pages=252–255
*cite journal|title=Optimal Food Allocation in a Slave Economy|coauthors=Ray Rees, Ngo Van Long, and Ulrich Woitek|journal=Journal of Population Economics|issue=16|year=2003|pages=21–36
*cite journal|title=Shrinking in a Growing Economy? The Mystery of Physical Stature during the Industrial Revolution|journal=Journal of Economic History|volume=58|year=1998|issue=3|pages=779–802
*cite journal|title=On the 'Puzzling' Antebellum Cycle of the Biological Standard of Living: the Case of Georgia|coauthors=Peter Coclanis|journal=Explorations in Economic History|volume=34|month=October|year=1997 |issue=4|pages=433–59|doi=10.1006/exeh.1997.0680|author=Komlos, J
*cite journal |title=Anomalies in Economic History: Reflections on the 'Antebellum Puzzle'|journal=Journal of Economic History|issue=56|month=March|year=1996|pages=202–214
*cite journal|title=Nutrition and Economic Development in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina: an Anthropometric Approach|coauthors=Peter Coclanis|journal=Social Science History|issue=19|year=1995|pages=91–116
*cite journal|title=The Secular Trend in the Biological Standard of Living in the United Kingdom, 1730-1860|journal=Economic History Review|issue=46|month=February|year=1993|pages=115–44
*cite journal|title="Estimating Trends in Historical Heights|coauthors=Joo Han Kim|journal=Historical Methods|issue=23|year=1990|pages=116–120
*cite journal|title=Height and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century Germany|journal=Journal of Interdisciplinary History|issue=20|year=1990|pages=607–621
*cite journal|title=The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America
journal=Journal of Economic History|issue=47|year=1987|pages=897–927
*cite journal|title=Stature and Nutrition in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Standard of Living and Economic Development|journal=American Historical Review|issue=90|year=1985|pages=1149–1161

External links

* [http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~u5152ak/webserver/webdata/komlos.html Home page]
* Guest on [http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/04/20040405_b_main.asp National Public Radio, "The Connection"]
* [http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ehb 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. [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040405fa_fact]