Georg Friedrich Knapp
German economist
Georg Friedrich Knapp was a German economist who in 1905 published The State Theory of Money, which founded the chartalist school of monetary theory, which argues that money's value derives from its issuance by an institutional form of government... Wikipedia
Born: March 7, 1842, Giessen, Germany
Died: February 20, 1926 (age 83 years), Darmstadt, Germany
Nationality: German
Notable student: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
Grandchild: Ernst Ludwig Heuss
Children: Elly Heuss-Knapp and Marianne Lesser-Knapp