Carl T. Schmidt

Carl Theodore Schmidt 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.^[1] His doctoral thesis was titled "Cyclical Fluctuations in German Economy, 1924–1930".^[2] In October 1931, he was appointed as a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York.^[3]

He was a lecturer in economics at the Columbia University.^[4] In 1940, he testified before the House of Representatives' Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens.^[5] During World War II, Schmidt was an officer in the United States Army.^[6]

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).

'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.

^ Columbia University in the City of New York, Catalogue Number for the Sessions of 1939–1940 (New York: Morningside Heights, n.d.), p. 91.
^ 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.
^ 'Notes', The American Economic Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jun., 1931), p. 397.
^ Register – University of California, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 1939), p. 69.
^ 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.
^ 'Excerpt from R. M. Haig's Budgetary Requests for 1943-44' (November 30, 1942), www.irwincollier.com. Retrieved 7 January 2021.