John Komlos

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John Komlos
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.

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[edit] 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.

[edit] Selected Publications

[edit] Books

  • (1989) Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 
  • (Ed.), (1994) Stature, Living Standards, and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 
  • (Ed.), (1998) Classics of Anthropometric History: A Selected Anthology. St. Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae. 

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  • (2004) "From the Tallest to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the Size of the American Population in the Twentieth Century". Economics and Human Biology 2 (1): 57–74. 
  • (August 2003) "An Anthropometric History of Early-Modern France, 1666-1766". European Review of Economic History (7): 159–189. 
  • (2003) "The Biological Standard of Living in the Two Germanies". German Economic Review 4 (4): 493–507. 
  • (March 2003) "Access to Food and the Biological Standard of Living: Perspectives on the Nutritional Status of Native Americans". American Economic Review 91 (1): 252–255. 
  • (2003) "Optimal Food Allocation in a Slave Economy". Journal of Population Economics (16): 21–36. 
  • (1998) "Shrinking in a Growing Economy? The Mystery of Physical Stature during the Industrial Revolution". Journal of Economic History 58 (3): 779–802. 
  • (October 1997) "On the 'Puzzling' Antebellum Cycle of the Biological Standard of Living: the Case of Georgia". Explorations in Economic History 34 (4): 433–59. 
  • (March 1996) "Anomalies in Economic History: Reflections on the 'Antebellum Puzzle'". Journal of Economic History (56): 202–214. 
  • (1995) "Nutrition and Economic Development in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina: an Anthropometric Approach". Social Science History (19): 91–116. 
  • (February 1993) "The Secular Trend in the Biological Standard of Living in the United Kingdom, 1730-1860". Economic History Review (46): 115–44. 
  • (1990) ""Estimating Trends in Historical Heights". Historical Methods (23): 116–120. 
  • (1990) "Height and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century Germany". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (20): 607–621. 
  • (1987) "The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America". Journal of Economic History (47): 897–927. 
  • (1985) "Stature and Nutrition in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Standard of Living and Economic Development". American Historical Review (90): 1149–1161. 

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