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.
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