John Komlos

Dados Biográficos

ID94388
NOMEJohn Komlos
PRENOMESJohn
SOBRENOMEKomlos
ASSINATURAKOMLOS J
AFILIAÇÕESLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München
ORCID0000-0001-5254-5625
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TOTAL DE OBRAS110
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES451
TOTAL COMO AUTOR108
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1978
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H11

  • Foundations of Real-World Economics

    Open AccessJohn KomlosARTICLEThe Pakistan Development Review2025

    1. Overview Professor John Komlos is a former chairman of the Department of Economic History at the University of Munich and also taught as a visitor at Harvard, Duke, and the University of Vienna. In his book, “Foundations of Real-World Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know and Doesn’t Get in the Usual Principles Text”, he examined mainstream economics and contemporary economic policies. This book has been translated into Chinese…

  • The decline in the physical stature of the U.S. population parallels the diminution in the rate of increase in life expectancy

    Open AccessJohn KomlosARTICLESSM - Population Health2025

    The U.S. healthcare and food-provisioning systems have failed to create an environment in which the human biological organism can flourish. Consequently, key health outcomes, most notably life expectancy, have consistently lagged those of other high-income populations since the Reagan era, coinciding with the adoption of economic policies that increased inequality and precarity across the population. We estimate the trends in physical stature, an…

  • Neoliberal Economic Policy and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism

    Open AccessJohn KomlosBOOKNeoliberal Economic Policy and…2024

  • Unemployment in the High-Pressure Capitalism of the 21 st Century

    John KomlosARTICLEForum for Social Economics2023Referências: 5

    The transition from an industrial to knowledge economy created many stressors that exacerbated the excesses of four decades of neoliberal economic policies culminating in a high-pressure capitalism that is reducing the effectiveness of the social contract upon which its success was based in the first place

  • Empirische Ökonomie

    Open AccessBernd Süßmuth, John KomlosBOOKEmpirische Ökonomie2022

  • Covert Racism in Economics

    John KomlosARTICLEFinanzArchiv2021

    Mainstream economic theory is replete with assumptions that feed into structural or systemic racism, because it supports an economic system that severely disadvantages people at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum, which in the U.S. includes a disproportionate number of Hispanics, indigenous people, and descendants of slaves. The paper discusses 15 such assumptions that are generally trivialized, including the crucial role information co…

  • Why African American Economists Should Abandon Mainstream Economic Theory Asap

    Open AccessJohn KomlosARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…2019Citada por: 2Referências: 14

    Markets have 14 Achilles heels that reduce the chances of those born into poverty to succeed in today’s complex economy. These intrinsic imperfections, generally overlooked in mainstream Econ 101, include costly information that implies that its acquisition by poor people requires a greater share of their income. Because of inferior schooling opportunities, the poor are more exposed to the myriad of problems associated with bounded rationality. T…

  • Clarifications of a Puzzle

    Open AccessJohn Komlos, Brian A''Hearn et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History2019Citada por: 11Referências: 31

    Bodenhom, Guinnane, and Mroz (2017) are critical of anthropometric research using based on non-random samples. Declining height trends in military and prison data, they argue, are artifacts of negative selection during favorable labor market conditions. We study height trends in the United States in the antebellum decades, which coincided with the onset of modem economic growth. We find that neither the historical evidence nor their own statistic…

  • Shrinking in a growing economy is not so puzzling after all

    Open AccessJohn KomlosARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2018

  • The BMI values of the lower classes likely declined during the Great Depression

    Open AccessJohn Komlos, Scott Alan Carson et al.ARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2017

  • The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology

    John Komlos, Inas Rashad KellyBOOKOxford Handbook of Economics and…2016

    The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes. The book addresses both macro and micro factors, as well as their interaction, providing new understanding of complex relationships and developments in economic history and economic dynamics. Among the topics explored is how variation in height, wheth…

  • Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology

    Inas Rashad Kelly, John KomlosBOOKOxford Handbook of Economics and…2016

  • Biological well-being in late nineteenth-century Philippines

    Open AccessJean‐pascal Bassino, Jean-Pascal Bassino et al.ARTICLECliometrica2016

  • Biological Well-Being in Late 19th Century Philippines

    Open AccessJean‐pascal Bassino, Jean-Pascal Bassino et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2015

  • The diminution of the physical stature of the English male population in the eighteenth century

    Open AccessJohn Komlos, Helmut KüchenhoffARTICLECliometrica2012

  • The trend of mean BMI values of US adults, birth cohorts 1882–1986 indicates that the obesity epidemic began earlier than hitherto thought

    Open AccessJohn Komlos, Marek BrabecARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2010

    BACKGROUND: The trend in the body mass index (BMI) values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because the time series data are unavailable and the focus has been on calculating period effects. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by gender and ethnicity born 1882-1986. METHODS: We use loess additive regression models to estimate age and trend effects of BMI values of US-…

  • The recent decline in the height of African-American women

    Open AccessJohn KomlosARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2010

  • The transition to post‐industrial BMI values among US children

    Open AccessJohn Komlos, Ariane Breitfelder et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2009

    The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence of longitudinal data. Our objective is to estimate time series of BMI values by birth cohorts instead of measurement years. We use five regression models to estimate the BMI trends of non‐Hispanic US‐born black and white children and adolescents ages 2–19 between 1941 and 2004. The increase in BMIZ values during the period considered was 1.3…

  • Welcome John Cawley

    Open AccessJohn KomlosARTICLEEconomics & Human Biology2009

  • Anthropometric history

    John KomlosARTICLEAnthropologischer Anzeiger2009Citada por: 11

    The systematic study of human physical stature reaches back into the 18th century. However, until French historians began to explore the socio-economic correlates of human height in the 1960s, the influence of the socio-economic environment primarily interested scholars of sister disciplines such as anthropology, auxology, or even military history. The present review summarizes a number of theoretical issues and new approaches to the understandin…

  • Height of US‐born non‐Hispanic children and adolescents ages 2–19, born 1942–2002 in the NHANES samples

    Open AccessJohn Komlos, Ariane BreitfelderARTICLEAmerican Journal of Human Biology2008

    We examine the height of non‐Hispanic US‐born children born 1942–2002 on the basis of all NHES and NHANES data sets available. We use the CDC 2000 reference values to convert height into height‐for‐age z ‐scores stratified by gender. We decompose deviations from the reference values into an age‐effect and a secular trend effect and find that after an initial increase in the 1940s, heights experienced a downward cycle to reach their early 1950s pe…

  • Differences in the physical growth of US-born black and white children and adolescents ages 2–19, born 1942–2002

    Open AccessJohn Komlos, Ariane BreitfelderARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2008

    Blacks have a faster tempo of linear growth in childhood partly on account of their nutritional habits, as girls in particular tend to have higher BMI values, and partly probably because of genetic differences

  • Stagnation of Heights Among Second‐Generation U.S.‐Born Army Personnel

    Open AccessJohn KomlosARTICLESocial Science Quarterly2008Citada por: 2Referências: 8

    Objectives. The physical stature of a population is a useful supplementary indicator of the living standards of children and youth insofar as it is sensitive to income and medical care. It is, thus, somewhat of a conundrum that U.S. heights tended to stagnate between around the mid‐1950s to the mid‐1970s birth cohorts, an otherwise economically prosperous period. Because of the controversial nature of the finding based on the NHANES data sets we …

  • Spatial Correlates of Us Heights and Body Mass Indexes, 2002

    Open AccessJohn Komlos, Benjamin E LauderdaleARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2007

    Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes of the recent remarkable stagnation and relative decline in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial US Sizing Survey (2002). Heights are correlated positively with income and education among both white males and females while Body Mass Index (BMI) is correlated negatively among females, as in other samples. In contrast to much of the literature, this pape…

  • Anthropometric evidence on economic growth, biological well-being and regional convergence in the Habsburg Monarchy, c. 1850–1910

    Open AccessJohn KomlosARTICLECliometrica2007