Freiwirtschaft

thumb|Silvio Gesell (1862–1930), the founder of Freiwirtschaft and Freigeld

'''' (German for "free economy") is an economic theory and proposal founded by the German-Argentine economist Silvio Gesell in his 1916 book, The Natural Economic Order (). Some of the basic economic ideas of Freiwirtschaft were also independently published in 1890 by the Hungarian-Austrian economist Theodor Hertzka in his novel Freiland – ein soziales Zukunftsbild (Freeland – A Social Anticipation).