Georg Friedrich Knapp Economist

Georg Friedrich Knapp (German: [knap]; March 7, 1842 – February 20, 1926) was a German economist who in 1905 published The State Theory of Money, which founded the chartalist school of monetary theory, which takes the statist stance that money must have no intrinsic value and strictly be used as governmentally-issued token, i.e., fiat money.

Personal facts

Georg Friedrich Knapp
Birth dateMarch 07, 1842
Birth place
Giessen , German Confederation
Nationality
Germany
Date of deathFebruary 20, 1926
Place of death
Darmstadt , Weimar Republic

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Economist

institution
University of Strasbourg
Field of work
Statistics
Monetary economics
influenced

Topical connections

Adolf von BaeyerScientist
Éric GeoffroyPhilosopher
Élie MetchnikoffScientist
Étienne LaspeyresScientist

Georg Friedrich Knapp on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/knapp/StateTheoryMoney.pdf
  2. http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/knapp/StateTheoryMoney.pdf
  3. http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/knapp/index.html