John Komlos

John Komlos ( born December 28, 1944 in Budapest) is a Hungarian- American economic historian. He was from 1992 until his retirement in 2010, Professor of Economic History at the University of Munich. Komlos is one of the founders of the field of the " anthropometric history " ( Anthropometric history) that compares the living conditions between companies and between different time periods based on body measurements.

Life

Komlos his doctorate in 1978 in History at the University of Chicago, in 1990 he received his doctorate in Chicago again in the discipline of economics at the Nobel laureate Robert Fogel.

Komlos was 1983-1984 Guest Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the Vienna University of Economics until 1985, he was then " Instructor " at the University of North Carolina in Raleigh (North Carolina). Between 1984 and 1986 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Center at the University of North Carolina 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 of Economic History at the University of Munich. From 1997 to 1999 he was dean of the economics faculty of the LMU.

In 2003 he founded the journal "Economics and Human Biology ," which appears in Elsevier and their publishers to Komlos today.

In a ranking of economists of the Handelsblatt in 2006, he was ranked 31 out of 850 research-based in Germany economists and was the only economist in the field of economic history, which was represented in this ranking.

In an interview on the financial crisis and hyperinflation in 1923, he replied to the question " Are the Germans still traumatized by the 20s? ": " Yes, of course it is indeed disturbing what is happening at present politicians and scientists find. . not have the means to solve the Gordian knot. 2008/ 09, as there was still time to refer the financial industry in their limits, have the economic stimulus and money printing programs not enough to solve the crisis. Now the States themselves so heavily indebted that the policy of courage and lack the power for forward-looking solutions. the state is in the hands of the financial industry. from debt and financial crisis a crisis of Demokratrie has become. "