Jörg Baten

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

Life

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

Working

Baten achieved fame with his work on the long-term human capital development and standard of living. In a global project the trends of numerical abilities have been documented for centuries. The proportion of people who could provide her age exactly, it served as an indicator, as well as statistics of book consumption. Baten came to the conclusion that the lead in the educational development of some countries today Distinguish between rich and poor caused, for example, while world trade played a minor role. Together with Nikola Koepke he examined the history of health and nutrition quality in Europe until the time of antiquity. It was also possible with other graduate students, such as Alexander Moradi, other regions of the world, such as Africa, countries in the Middle East and Latin America are documented with anthropometric methods. An important result was that the health of historical populations strongly depended on the agricultural specialization, for example, ameliorated livestock economic specialization catastrophic protein and calcium deficiencies pre-industrial societies.