Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(5):81-88 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.488

Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - Silvio Gesell

Pavel Sirůček
Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, Fakulta podnikohospodářská (email: sirucek@vse.cz).

Silvio Gesell was a German tradesman, self-educated economist, globetrotter and social reformer with a nonconformist worldview. He is known for his proposals for monetary reform. He is famous for his experiments with interest-free currency. Gesell's thought inspired a plenty of political and civil movements, and has a few followers even to this day.

Keywords: S. Gesell, B. Lietaer, free money, theory of interest, natural economic order
JEL classification: B19, B59, E49, E59

Published: August 1, 2015  Show citation

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Sirůček, P. (2015). Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - Silvio Gesell. Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 23(5), 81-88. doi: 10.18267/j.aop.488
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