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]

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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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