Magnus Manske wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
I never heard of him before, but seems like an
interesting person who
influenced John Maynard Keynes, whom many people do respect as an
economist. His ideas of free land and free money are described in
his principal work, "The Natural Economic Order", which is available
on-line in English at
http://ccdev.lets.net/neo/neo2.htm Perhaps
somebody could translate the articles from the German Wikipedia
I started translating Freiwirtschaft; I'd say it is a joke, but there
are several external links given. So either it is a really big joke,
or there really is such a thing. Weird.
At the risk of seeming to beg the point, is it the German Wikipedia
article which is the joke, or Gesell's economic theories. Gesell
certainly did live and write. Whether right or wrong some people were
influenced by him; he was even Minister of Finance in a breakaway post
WWI independent Bavarian state. That should at least get him an
historical footnote, but perhaps not a statue in the Economists' Hall of
Fame.
Eclecticology