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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 economics, 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Friedrich Knapp is the 262nd most popular economist (down from 247th in 2019), the 4,071st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,668th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 262 out of 414Before him are Jules Dupuit, Eugen Varga, Esther Duflo, Yulia Navalnaya, David Card, and Jörg Meuthen. After him are Roy Harrod, Joshua Angrist, Leopold von Wiese, Alfred Müller-Armack, Wilhelm Lexis, and Alexander Chayanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 77Before him are Heinrich Martin Weber, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, Hugo Egmont Hørring, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Ernest Lavisse, and Infante João, Duke of Beja. After him are Benoît-Constant Coquelin, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Ferdinand Keller, Stefanos Dragoumis, Antonio Fogazzaro, and Albert Ladenburg. Among people deceased in 1926, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 79Before him are Vladimir Steklov, Hans von Koessler, Srečko Kosovel, Sanford B. Dole, Israel Zangwill, and Kristján Jónsson. After him are Mariam Thresia Chiramel, Charles Avery, Iraj Mirza, Giovanni Cagliero, Edward Granville Browne, and Princess Frederica of Hanover.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 4,073 out of 7,253Before him are Laura Perls (1905), Inge Scholl (1917), Hugo Winckler (1863), Albert von Le Coq (1860), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831), and Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line (1832). After him are Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1553), Max von Hausen (1846), William II of Berg (1348), Peter von Hess (1792), Robert von Mohl (1799), and Albert Ballin (1857).

Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Georg Friedrich Knapp ranks 30Before him are Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Adam Müller (1779), Andreas Kaplan (1977), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), and Jörg Meuthen (1961). After him are Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Theodore Levitt (1925), Karl Knies (1821), Alice Salomon (1872), and Ludwig Lachmann (1906).