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Georg Friedrich Knapp

1842 - 1926

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Georg Friedrich Knapp (German: [knap]; 7 March 1842 – 20 February 1926) was a German economist who in 1905 published The State Theory of Money, which founded the chartalist school of monetary economics, which argues that money's value derives from its issuance by an institutional form of government rather than spontaneously through relations of exchange. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg Friedrich Knapp has received more than 119,257 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Friedrich Knapp is the 247th most popular economist (down from 243rd in 2019), the 3,668th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,405th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 247 out of 414. Before him are Arthur Melvin Okun, Hernando de Soto Polar, Abhijit Banerjee, David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, and Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert. After him are Theodore Levitt, Esther Duflo, Robert Barro, Edward Chamberlin, Alexander Gerschenkron, and Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 67. Before him are Erik Gustaf Boström, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Ellen Swallow Richards, Stojan Novaković, Heinrich Martin Weber, and François Hennebique. After him are Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Antero de Quental, Infante João, Duke of Beja, Wilhelm Jordan, Carl Theodore Liebermann, and Nikolay Mikhaylovsky. Among people deceased in 1926, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 73. Before him are William Larned, Sanford B. Dole, Hans von Koessler, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Vladimir Steklov, and Juan Benlloch i Vivó. After him are Israel Zangwill, Jules Gilliéron, Srečko Kosovel, André Gedalge, Iraj Mirza, and Joan Alcover.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 3,668 out of 7,253. Before him are Reinhard Libuda (1943), Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (1712), Gustav Knuth (1901), Jean Dufresne (1829), Marlies Göhr (1958), and Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern (1924). After him are Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1702), Nick Heidfeld (1977), Adolf Busch (1891), Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1700), Louise Lehzen (1784), and Liane Augustin (1927).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 28. Before him are E. F. Schumacher (1911), Adam Müller (1779), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), and Étienne Laspeyres (1834). After him are Theodore Levitt (1925), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Andreas Kaplan (1977), Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), and Karl Knies (1821).

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