KÄrlis Balodis
Carl Ballod ( Latvian Karlis Balodis ) ( born June 20, 1864 in Koknese, † March 14, 1931 in Riga) was a Latvian economist and statistician. He worked and taught for a time in Germany.
Life
Carl Ballod studied theology, geography and economics in Dorpat, Jena, Munich and Strasbourg. He then took a study trip to Brazil. Between 1893 and 1895 he was a Protestant clergyman in a German town in the Urals. There he worked intensively with statistics. After his return from Russia, he was the theology, moved to Germany about and devoted himself entirely to the Economics and Statistics. In 1899 he was Privatdozent in Berlin. In 1905 he became a member of the Prussian Statistical Office, and since 1908 he was a member of the Imperial Treasury. In 1914 he was appointed Honorary Professor in Berlin, and in 1919 a member of the Commission socialization. He was at times close to the USPD. Ballod was also a leader in the pro Palestine Committee action, the fought for the settlement of Jews in Palestine. He then accepted a professorship of the new university Riga. Between 1928 and 1930 he was a member of the Latvian Parliament.
Work
Ballod was an expert on urbanization and demographic developments. He represented, among others, the thesis that the urban population will continue to the influx from the country in need, to keep the population or to increase.
In 1898 he published under the pseudonym Atlanticus his book " The Future State. Ideal Economic and Economic Reality. " This work was published until 1927 in three editions and was published in 1903 and 1906 in Russia. He argued in his book "Future State " for an economic system in which the vital needs of the state should be generated by a general compulsory labor service. The luxury production should continue to be organized privately. Who had finished his compulsory labor service of five to six years, should receive an adequate pension for life. The state should it also have colonies for their population compulsory labor service should exist. From the Social Democrats, these ideas were rejected as utopian and colonial.
Works (selection)
- The state of Santa Catharina in southern Brazil. Stuttgart, 1892
- The average life in town and country. Leipzig, 1899
- The future state. Production and consumption in the welfare state. Stuttgart, 1898 ( Publisher JHWDietz Nachf., Berlin 1919)
- The mortality of large cities, 1903
- Floor plan of the statistics including population, economic, financial and trade statistics. Berlin, 1913
- The population movement in recent decades in Prussia and in some other major countries in Europe. Berlin, 1914
- Palestine as a Jewish settlement area. German Committee for the promotion of Jewish settlement of Palestine in 1918
- Soviet Russia. Verlagsgenossenschaft freedom, Berlin 1920
- The bankruptcy of the free economy and the necessary financial and economic reforms. Jena, 1923