John Komlos | |
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| Born | 28 December 1944 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Institutions | University of Munich University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Field | Economic history |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Influences | Robert Fogel |
| Contributions | Economics 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]
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]
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]
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