Jörg Baten

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Jörg Baten (born June 24, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German economic historian .

Life

Baten was at John Komlos at the University Ludwig-Maximilians in Munich with a thesis on the biological standard of living in southern Germany doctorate and in 2001 with a thesis on the Baden company habilitation . Since 2001 he has held the professorship for economic history at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 2005 he was invited as a visiting professor at Yale University (Dept. Political Science), and in 2006/2007 he was visiting professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Since 2006 he has been Secretary General of the International Economic History Association.

Baten became known for his work on long-term human capital and living standards development . In a worldwide project, the trends in numerical skills were documented over centuries. The proportion of people who were able to state their age exactly served as an indicator, as did statistics on book consumption. Baten came to the conclusion that the lead in the educational development of some countries caused today's differences between rich and poor, while world trade , for example, played a rather minor role.

Baten and others explored the history of health and nutritional quality in Europe as far back as ancient times . Other regions of the world, such as Africa, countries in the Middle East and Latin America, were also examined using anthropometric methods. An important finding was that the health of historical populations was very much dependent on agricultural specialization. For example, specializing in the livestock industry alleviated the catastrophic protein and calcium deficiencies in pre-industrial societies.

Books

  • Jörg Baten (Ed.): A History of the Global Economy. From 1500 to the present . Cambridge University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-50718-0 .
  • Jörg Baten (Ed.): The Backbone of Europe: Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia . Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-1-108-42195-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2003, Vol. 1, pp. 132f.
  2. ^ Brian A'Hearn, Jörg Baten, Dorothee Crayen: Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital . In: Journal of Economic History . 69, No. 3, 2009, pp. 783-808. doi : 10.1017 / S0022050709001120 .
  3. ^ Jörg Baten, Jan Luiten van Zanden: Book Production and the Onset of Early Modern Growth . In: Journal of Economic Growth . 13, No. 3, 2008, pp. 217-235. doi : 10.1007 / s10887-008-9031-9 .
  4. ^ Nikola Koepke, Jörg Baten: Agricultural Specialization and Height in Ancient and Medieval Europe . In: Explorations in Economic History . 45, No. 2, 2008, pp. 127-146. doi : 10.1016 / j.eeh.2007.09.003 .
  5. ↑ Jörg Baten, Mojgan Stegl: Tall and shrinking Muslims, short and growing Europeans: The long-run welfare development of the Middle East, 1850–1980 . In: Explorations in Economic History . 46, No. 1, 2009, pp. 132-148. doi : 10.1016 / j.eeh.2008.10.003 .
  6. ↑ Jörg Baten, Ines Pelger, Linda Twrdek: The Anthropometric History of Argentina, Brazil and Peru during the 19th and early 20th century . In: Economics and Human Biology . 7, No. 3, 2009, pp. 319-333. doi : 10.1016 / j.ehb.2009.04.003 .
  7. ↑ Alexander Moradi, Jörg Baten: Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Data and New Insights from Anthropometric Estimates . In: World Development . 33, No. 8, 2005, pp. 1233-1265. doi : 10.1016 / j.worlddev.2005.04.010 .
personal data
SURNAME Asked, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg