Carl Snyder
Statistician, Author
1869 – 1946
Who was Carl Snyder?
Carl Snyder was an American economist and statistician.
Although he attended the University of Iowa and studied in Paris, he was chiefly self-taught. He began as a journalist; at the age of 20, he was editor of the Council Bluffs Nonparell, later writing editorials for the Washington Post. Snyder was also something of a science writer, authoring popular articles in magazines such as McClure's and the Fortnightly Review about, for example, Jacques Loeb's experiments on the nature of living tissue. He was a president of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a member of the Institut Internationale de Statistique.
In the 1910s and 20s, Snyder was employed as a statistician in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, under Benjamin Strong. The two men clashed, but still respected each other. During these years, he lectured at American universities and contributed to economic and statistical journals.
Snyder's response to the Great Depression was to write his magnum opus Capitalism the Creator.
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- Born
- Apr 23, 1869
United States of America - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Iowa
- Died
- 1946
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on July 23, 2013
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