- Georg Friedrich Knapp
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name = Georg Friedrich Knapp
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birth_date =March 7 ,1842
birth_place =Gießen
death_date =February 20 ,1926
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residence = Germany
citizenship = German
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field = Economist, statistican
work_institutions =University of Strasbourg
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doctoral_students =Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (Habil.) 1895,Kurt Singer
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footnotes =Georg Friedrich Knapp (
March 7 ,1842 –February 20 ,1926 ) was a German economist and founder of the chartalist school ofmonetary theory , which takes the statist stance onmoney , claiming that it must have nointrinsic value and strictly be used as governmentally-issued token i.e.fiat money .He is the author of [http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/knapp/StateTheoryMoney.pdf "The State Theory of Money"] (English translation 1924).
ee also
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Fiat money vs.commodity money
*Keynesianism External links
* [http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/knapp/index.html Archive for the History of Economic Thought]
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