Carl T. Schmidt

Carl Theodore Schmidt (March 7, 1906 – October 17, 1958)[1][2][3] was an American scholar.

Education and academic career

He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, where was he awarded a BS in 1928 and a PhD in 1931.[4] His doctoral thesis was titled "Cyclical Fluctuations in German Economy, 1924–1930".[5] In October 1931, he was appointed as a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York.[6]

He was a lecturer in economics at the Columbia University.[7] In 1940, he testified before the House of Representatives' Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens.[8] During World War II, Schmidt was an officer in the United States Army.[9][10]

Works

Books
  • German Business Cycles, 1924–1933 (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1934).
  • The Plough and the Sword: Labor, Land, and Property in Fascist Italy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1938).
  • The Corporate State in Action: Italy under Fascism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1939).
  • American Farmers in the World Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1941).

Articles
  • 'The Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research', Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Feb., 1931), pp. 101–103.
  • 'The German Institute for Business Cycle Research', The American Economic Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Mar., 1931), pp. 63–66.
  • (with Erich A. Otto), 'Das National Bureau of Economic Research in New York', Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 38. Bd. (1933), pp. 571–576.
  • 'The Italian "Battle of Wheat"', Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Nov., 1936), pp. 645–656.
  • 'La Propiedad y la Empresa Agrícolas Bajo el Fascismo Italiano', El Trimestre Económico, Vol. 4, No. 15 (1937), pp. 251–287.
  • 'Agricultural Property and Enterprise under Italian Fascism', Science & Society, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Spring, 1937), pp. 326–349.
  • 'Land Reclamation in Fascist Italy', Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Sep., 1937), pp. 340–363.
  • 'Concentration of Joint-Stock Enterprise in Italy', The American Economic Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, Part 1 (Mar., 1940), pp. 82–86.

Notes
  1. Official Army Register, Volume I: United States Army, Active and Retired Lists. 1 January 1954 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1954), p. 663.
  2. 'Extracted from the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration database dated 15 June 2006 by Joy Fisher', http://files.usgwarchives.net. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  3. 'Col, Carl T. Schmidt', The New York Times (October 18, 1958), p. 21.
  4. Columbia University in the City of New York, Catalogue Number for the Sessions of 1939–1940 (New York: Morningside Heights, n.d.), p. 91.
  5. Robert Leeson (ed.), Hayek: A Collaborative Biography Part XV: The Chicago School of Economics, Hayek’s ‘luck’ and the 1974 Nobel Prize for Economic Science, Part 15 (Springer International Publishing, 2018), pp. 148, 159.
  6. 'Notes', The American Economic Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 1931), p. 397.
  7. Register – University of California, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 1939), p. 69.
  8. Hearings before the Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens. House of Representatives. Seventy-Sixth Congress. Third Session. ... Part 8, Washington, D. C., Hearings: November 29, December 2, 3, 1940 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1941), p. 3767.
  9. 'Excerpt from R. M. Haig's Budgetary Requests for 1943-44' (November 30, 1942), www.irwincollier.com. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  10. 'Alphabetical List of Members', The American Economic Review, Vol. 32, No. 3, Part 2, Supplement, Directory of the American Economic Association Edited by the Secretary (Sep., 1942), p. 98.
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