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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Georg Friedrich Knapp (March 7, 1842 – February 20, 1926) was a German economist and founder of the chartalist school of monetary theory, which takes the statist stance on money, claiming that it must have no intrinsic 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

* 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]