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Georg Friedrich Knapp

German economist (1842-1926)

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  • Momentum0.6
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Lived 1842–1926, aged 84Germany
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  • Era
    1842–1926
    Aged 84
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Updated 2026-06-09

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.

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