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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 theory, 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 113,754 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Friedrich Knapp is the 245th most popular economist, the 3,408th most popular biography from Germany and the 28th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 245 out of 315. Before him are Greg Mankiw, John R. Commons, Leopold von Wiese, Ragnar Nurkse, William Phillips, and Edward Chamberlin. After him are Theodore Levitt, Olivier Blanchard, Tony Atkinson, Leo Huberman, Kenichi Ohmae, and David Card.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 64. Before him are Antero de Quental, Stojan Novaković, Heinrich Martin Weber, Wilhelm Jordan, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, and Alessandro Fortis. After him are Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Ellen Swallow Richards, Pyotr Durnovo, Erik Gustaf Boström, Antonio Fogazzaro, and Berthold Delbrück. Among people deceased in 1926, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 71. Before him are Jean Richepin, Juan Benlloch i Vivó, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Louis Majorelle, Sanford B. Dole, and Israel Zangwill. After him are André Gedalge, Srečko Kosovel, Vladimir Steklov, Edward Granville Browne, Jules Gilliéron, and Dmitry Furmanov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 3,408 out of 6,142. Before him are Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859), Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg (1815), Leopold II, Prince of Lippe (1796), and Max Noether (1921). After him are Kurt Adolff (1921), Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden (1625), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Georg Kolbe (1877), Horst Köppel (1948), and Nannette Streicher (1769).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 28. Before him are Adam Müller (1779), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), E. F. Schumacher (1911), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), and Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817). After him are Theodore Levitt (1925), Jörg Meuthen (1961), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Karl Knies (1821), Alice Salomon (1872), and W. Michael Blumenthal (1926).

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