PPE x Carolina Public Humanities Joint Lecture: Economic History of the Rise of Trumpism

with John Komlos, Professor of Economic History Emeritus, University of Munich

John Komlos is professor emeritus of economics and of economic history at the University of Munich, Germany and is currently visiting professor of economics at Duke University.

Defying disciplinary boundaries, Komlos is among the very few scholars to publish in major journals of five disciplines: the American Economic Review, the American Historical Review, the American Journal of Human Biology, Statistical Methodology, and Mathematical Population Studies. Komlos was the first to explain why populations of the then-developed world became shorter at the onset of modern economic growth. He also discovered that after being the tallest in the world for 200 years, Americans became shorter than Western Europeans after the Second World War. His work has been cited in radio programs and on television as well as in most major newspapers around the globe including the New York Times, and was featured in the New Yorker magazine in 2004. Since the Meltdown of 2008, Komlos has taught courses on the history of financial crisis in Munich, Duke University, and the Harvard Summer School.

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This talk is part of the PPE Program’s collaboration with Carolina Public Humanities and their Humanities in Action Series at FlyLeaf Books. All talks in this series are free to UNC and Duke students, as well as UNC faculty and staff, with valid ID.