ECONOMIST

Karl Knies

1821 - 1898

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Karl Gustav Adolf Knies (29 March 1821 – 3 August 1898) was a German economist of the historical school of economics, best known as the author of Political Economy from the Standpoint of the Historical Method (1853). Knies taught at the University of Heidelberg for over 30 years, and was perhaps the most theoretically oriented economist of the older historical school. Like others in the German historical school, Knies disliked the attitudes of the "classical school" (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and their followers), particularly their belief that the pursuit of individual self-interest redounded to the good of the community. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Knies has received more than 47,666 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Knies is the 302nd most popular economist (down from 278th in 2019), the 4,520th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,984th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Karl Knies ranks 302 out of 414. Before him are Pedro Solbes, Gottfried Haberler, Michael Kremer, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Deirdre McCloskey, and Mark Blaug. After him are David Landes, Charles P. Kindleberger, Anna Schwartz, Pietro Verri, Paul A. Baran, and Jan Krzysztof Bielecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Karl Knies ranks 83. Before him are Janko Matúška, Marcus Goldman, Alexander Gardner, John Abbott, Joseph Noel Paton, and Charles of Mount Argus. After him are Henri Alexis Brialmont, Mathilde Marchesi, William Henry Vanderbilt, Juan Bautista Topete, Amalie Dietrich, and George Williams. Among people deceased in 1898, Karl Knies ranks 60. Before him are Eli Lilly, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Calixto García, Joaquín Crespo, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, and Emil Hartmann. After him are Ramón Emeterio Betances, Osbert Salvin, Maria Katharina Kasper, Félix María Zuloaga, Ángel Ganivet, and John Hopkinson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Knies ranks 4,520 out of 7,253. Before him are Hermann Josef Abs (1901), Tilo Prückner (1940), Rainer Woelki (1956), Oswald Teichmüller (1913), Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), and Gabriele Seyfert (1948). After him are Reiner Knizia (1957), Hans Werner Richter (1908), Paul Hermann (1646), Gerhard Rohlfs (1892), Aleida Assmann (1947), and Michael Gwisdek (1942).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Karl Knies ranks 34. Before him are Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Theodore Levitt (1925), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Andreas Kaplan (1977), Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), and Ludwig Lachmann (1906). After him are Alice Salomon (1872), Jörg Meuthen (1961), W. Michael Blumenthal (1926), and Robin Hanson (1959).

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