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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. In his Political Economy, p. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Knies is the 317th most popular economist (down from 302nd in 2019), the 4,818th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,521st in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Karl Knies ranks 317 out of 414. Before him are Alan Krueger, Nouriel Roubini, Pedro Solbes, Branko Milanović, Seth Godin, and José Luis Sampedro. After him are Lawrence Summers, Alice Salomon, Michael Kremer, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Walter Block, and José Ángel Gurría.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Karl Knies ranks 89. Before him are Charles of Mount Argus, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Jane Wilde, William Henry Vanderbilt, Marcus Goldman, and Charles Francis Hall. After him are Juan Bautista Topete, Jan van Beers, Joseph Noel Paton, Mathilde Marchesi, Robert O'Hara Burke, and Churchill Babington. Among people deceased in 1898, Karl Knies ranks 71. Before him are Félix María Zuloaga, Osbert Salvin, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Adolfo Farsari, Wilford Woodruff, and Ángel Ganivet. After him are Luiza Pesjak, Emil Hartmann, Henry Liddell, Yelena Polenova, John Hopkinson, and Thomas F. Bayard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Knies ranks 4,821 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Christiane Nord (1943), Rudolf Harbig (1913), Franz Dienert (1900), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), and Otto Bütschli (1848). After him are Charles Régnier (1914), Wolfgang Paul (1940), Julius Curtius (1877), Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897), Hubert Hahne (1935), and Paul Matschie (1861).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, Karl Knies ranks 34. Before him are Étienne Laspeyres (1834), Jörg Meuthen (1961), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), and Theodore Levitt (1925). After him are Alice Salomon (1872), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), W. Michael Blumenthal (1926), and Robin Hanson (1959).

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