Karl Brandt (January 9, 1899 – July 8, 1975) was a German-American agricultural economist. Brandt was born in Essen. He fled from Germany to the U.S. in 1933, shortly after the Nazi regime came to power. He was successively a professor and researcher at the New School for Social Research, the , and Stanford University (where he was affiliated with the Hoover Institution). Brandt was one of the founding members of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947. * v * t * e