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Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - Silvio Gesell

Pavel Sirůček

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

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.