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KNAPP, George Friedrich was born in 1842 in Giessen, Germany.
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2013 Reprint of 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842-1926) was a German economist who in 1895 published "The State Theory of Money," which founded the chartalist school of monetary theory, which takes the statist stance that money must have no intrinsic value and strictly be used as governmentally-issued token, i.e., fiat money. Published originally in 1905, it created a stir among academics and policy makers, with proponents and critics both arguing forcefully about it. It was written at a time when monetary matters were in a great flux. Throughout the world, countries debated the optimal metallic standard for their monetary systems. Should it be silver, gold, both in a fixed relation (bimetallism), a combination of the two (symmetalism), or should the selection of the standard be left to the market? Knapp put the debate on new ground by suggesting that there need not be a metallic standard at all. Ideas about the desirability of paper money not backed by gold or other metals had been presented before but were never able to command academic respectability.
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First published in 1095 in Germany, translated from the fourth edition and published in England in 1924, this seminal work ran counter to the classical and neo-classical theories of money. Knall defined money as a creation of the state, with no intrinsic value. This concept helped to lay the foundation for J. M. Keynes's work.
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KNAPP, George Friedrich was born in 1842 in Giessen, Germany.
Statistician, economic historian and economic theorist whose first published work was a systematic theory of mortality measurement. He developed his application of mathematical methods to demographic problems in later publications. At Strassburg he switched his attention to agricultural history, identifying landed estates as a special form of capitalism.
His final phase produced his controversial work on money which emphasised the role of the state in preserving the value of money.
Head, Leipzig City State Office. Teacher, University Leipzig, 1867-1874, University Strassburg, 1874-1919.
(First published in 1095 in Germany, translated from the f...)
(2013 Reprint of 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the origi...)