# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/georg-friedrich-knapp
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:53:54.133Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/georg-friedrich-knapp"
name: "Georg Friedrich Knapp"
slug: "georg-friedrich-knapp"
description: "Georg Friedrich Knapp was a German heterodox 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."
tagline: "German economist (1842-1926)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1842-03-07"
deathDate: "1926-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump