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Carl Copping Plehn, 1867-1945.

American public finance economist at Berkeley.

Originating from Providence, Rhode Island, Carl Copping Plehn received his BA from Brown University in 1889, before proceeding to Germany to earn his Ph.D. from Göttingen in 1891.  Carl Plehn was one of the last of the "new generation" of German-trained US economists.

After returning to the US, Plehn served as a teacher at Middlebury, before moving across the country to join the faculty at the University of California-Berkeley and professor of history and political science.  In his early years, Plehn taught a variety of courses in history, law and economics, but gradually specialized, and soon made a name for himself as one of the leading authorities on public finance and taxation.  Plehn's 1896 textbook was adopted in many other colleges, and Plehn served on a variety of government commissions (notably the Philippines, 1900-1901, and the California Commission on Revenue and Taxation until 1910).

In 1898, Carl Plehn was made the first dean of the newly-established "College of Commerce" at California-Berkeley.

 

  

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Major Works of Carl C. Plehn

  •  Das Kreditwesen der Staaten und Städte der Nordameri-kanischen Union, in seiner historischen Entwickelung, 1891 [bk]
  • "The Census Enumeration in Prussia", 1891, Pub ASA, p.407 [js]
  • "The Establishment of an Imperial Commission for Labor Statistics in Germany", 1892, Pub ASA (Dec), p.213 [js]
  • "Review of Ripley's Financial History of Virginia" 1894, AAPSS (Mar),  p.141 [js]
  • "Labor in California", 1896, Yale Review (Feb)
  • Introduction to Public Finance, 1896.[bk, bk, av] [1902 2nd ed, av; 1909 3rd ed, bk, av; 1916 ed, av; 1920 4th ed, bk, bk, av]
  • "The Growth of the University", 1897, Overland Monthly (Jan), p.28
  • "Classification in Public Finance", 1897, PSQ (Mar)
  • "The General Property Tax in California", 1897, AEA Economic Studies (Jun), p.197
  • "Finances of the United States in the Spanish War", 1898, University Chronicle [bk, av]
  • "Valuation and Taxation", 1899, Pub AEA, (Mar) p.369 [js]
  • "Notes concerning the rate of interest of California", 1899, Pub ASA [js, av]
  •  "Review of Seligman's Shifting Incidence of Taxation", 1899, AAPSS (Nov) p.89 [js] 
  • "Higher commercial education and graduate studies", 1899, Univ Chron, p.346
  • "Taxation in the Philippines I & II", 1901-02, PSQ.
  • "Relation of Ethics and Economics", 1902, Univ Chron, p.301
  • Revenue Systems of State and Local Government, 1907 [av]
  • "Taxation of Public Service Corporations", 1907,  [av]
  • "The San Francisco Clearing House Certificates, 1907-08", 1908, Pub AEA [av]
  • Government Finance in the United States, 1915 [bk, av]
  •  "Review of Seligman's Income Tax", 1915, AER (Mar) p.114 [js]
  • Stock and Bond Valuation of Public Utilities in California, 1916 [av]
  • "Some Phases of Finance during the Great War", 1916, University Chronicle [av]

 
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Resources on Carl Plehn

  • Notice of Plehn's appointment to Middlebury 1892 AAPSS p.110 [js]; position at Berkeley, 1897, AAPSS, p.114 [js]
  • "Review of CC Plehn's Das Kreditwesen der Staaten und Städte der Nordameri-kanischen Union, in seiner historischen Entwickelung", by R.P. Falkner, 1892, AAPSS (May), p.118 [js]
  • "Review of Plehn's Introduction to Public Finance", by A.C. Miller, 1897, JPE (Mar), p.264 [js]
  • "Review of Plehn's General Property Tax", by Francis Walker, 1897, AAPSS, (Nov) p.145 [js]
  • Report of the Commission on Revenue and Taxation of California, 1906 [av]
  • Plehn profile at Calisphere

 

 
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