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Silvio Gesell

1862 - 1930

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Johann Silvio Gesell (German: [ɡəˈzɛl]; 17 March 1862 – 11 March 1930) was a German-Argentine economist, merchant, and the founder of Freiwirtschaft, an economic model for market socialism. In 1900 he founded the magazine Geld-und Bodenreform (Monetary and Land Reform), but it soon closed for financial reasons. During one of his stays in Argentina, where he lived in a vegetarian commune, Gesell started the magazine Der Physiokrat together with Georg Blumenthal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Silvio Gesell has received more than 240,987 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Silvio Gesell is the 106th most popular economist (up from 113th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 163rd in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Economist.

Silvio Gesell was a German economist and social activist who proposed a system of money called "free money" which would be issued by the state. The amount of free money would be determined by the amount of goods and services produced by the economy. Gesell believed that this system would cause the price of goods to drop, increase demand, and lead to a stable economy.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Silvio Gesell ranks 106 out of 414. Before him are Kristalina Georgieva, Lorenz von Stein, Oskar Morgenstern, Bingu wa Mutharika, Douglas McGregor, and Thomas Schelling. After him are Adolph Wagner, Friedrich von Wieser, Rudolf Hilferding, Zhou Youguang, Richard Stone, and Thomas J. Sargent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Silvio Gesell ranks 35. Before him are Loie Fuller, Siegbert Tarrasch, Prince Henry of Prussia, Mary Kingsley, Henry McMahon, and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal. After him are Maurice Barrès, Mary Anderson, Vito Cascio Ferro, August Oetker, Georges Feydeau, and Ugyen Wangchuck. Among people deceased in 1930, Silvio Gesell ranks 27. Before him are Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Sakichi Toyoda, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Adolf von Harnack, Luigi Facta, and Adolf Engler. After him are Vasily Bartold, Otto Mueller, Leopold Auer, Wilfrid Voynich, Jules Pascin, and Vladimir Arsenyev.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Silvio Gesell ranks 154 out of 1,190. Before him are Catharina van Hemessen (1528), Laura Marx (1845), Leo Baekeland (1863), Gudula (646), Henri, Count of Paris (1933), and Eric Gerets (1954). After him are Ermengarde of Hesbaye (778), Lara Fabian (1970), Toots Thielemans (1922), Blanche of Namur (1320), The Singing Nun (1933), and Petrus Plancius (1552).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Belgium

Among economists born in Belgium, Silvio Gesell ranks 1. After him are Gustave de Molinari (1819), Philippe Van Parijs (1951), Bernard Lietaer (1942), and Gunter Pauli (1956).

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