John Komlos

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John Komlos (born December 28, 1944 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian - American economic historian . From 1992 until his retirement in 2010 he was Professor of Economic History at LMU Munich . Komlos is one of the founders of the research field of " anthropometric historiography" ( English anthropometric history ), which compares the living conditions between societies and between different epochs based on body measurements.

Life

Komlos received his doctorate in history from the University of Chicago in 1978 , and in 1990 he again received his doctorate in economics from Nobel Prize winner Robert Fogel .

From 1983 to 1984 Komlos was visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business , and until 1985 he was an " instructor " at the University of North Carolina in Raleigh (North Carolina). Between 1984 and 1986 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina Population Center at Chapel Hill .

From 1986 to 1992 Komlos was initially "Assistant" and then " Associate Professor of History and of Economics " at the University of Pittsburgh . From 1992 until his retirement in 2010 he was Professor of Economic History and Director of the Institute for Economic History at LMU Munich. From 1997 to 1999 he was dean of the economics faculty at LMU.

In 2003 he founded the journal Economics & Human Biology , which is published by Elsevier-Verlag and whose publisher is Komlos to this day.

In a ranking of economists in the Handelsblatt in 2006, he was ranked 31st out of 850 economists researching in Germany and was the only economist in the field of economic history who was represented in this ranking.

In an interview on the subject of the financial crisis and hyperinflation in 1923, he answered the question “Are the Germans still traumatized by the 1920s?”: “Yes, of course. It is also worrying what is happening now. Politicians and scientists do not find the means to untie the Gordian knot. In 2008/09, when there was still time to limit the financial industry, the economic stimulus and money pressure programs were not enough to resolve the crisis. Now the states themselves are so heavily indebted that politicians lack the courage and power for future-oriented solutions. The state is in the hands of the financial industry. The debt and financial crisis has turned into a crisis of democracy. "

Publications

  • Economic thinking after the crash: Introduction to a reality-based economics , translated from the American and revised by Volker Grzimek, Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-7316-1083-0 .
  • (together with Bernd Süßmuth ): Empirical Economics: an introduction to methods and applications , Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-01704-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.journals.elsevier.com/economics-and-human-biology/
  2. ↑ Handelsblatt Ökonomen-Ranking ( Memento from July 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ In 1923 the French wanted coal. Today it's all about money: The economist John Komlos on hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic and the dangers of the bailout policy today , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Thursday, January 26, 2012, Interview: Simone Boehringer


personal data
SURNAME Komlos, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-American economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest