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Silvio Gesell
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German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1862-03-17 ) 17 March 1862, Sankt Vith , Rhine Province , Kingdom of Prussia
- Died
- 11 March 1930 (1930-03-11) (aged 67), Oranienburg , Brandenburg , Weimar Republic
- Children
- Carlos Idaho Gesell
- Influences
- Theodor Hertzka , Henry George , Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Discipline
- Monetary theory , Interest , Monetary reform , Land reform
- School or tradition
- Freiwirtschaft Market socialism
- Notable works
- The Natural Economic Order (1916)
- Notable ideas
- Demurrage currency , interest-free economy , Unearned income
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Place of birth
- Sankt Vith
- Place of death
- Oranienburg
- Educated at
- gymnasium
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- German
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Field of work
- Esperanto
- Image
- Silvio Gesell (1895).jpg
- Work location
- Munich
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- Commons category
- Silvio Gesell
- date of birth
- 1862-03-17
- date of death
- 1930-03-11
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- writing language
- German
- name in native language
- Johann Silvio Gesell
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- Jim Price
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Encyclopedic overview
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Johann Silvio Gesell ( German: [ɡəˈzɛl]; 17 March 1862 – 11 March 1930) was a German-Argentine economist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. He was the founder of Freiwirtschaft (German for "free economy"), an economic model for market socialism. In 1900, he founded the magazine Money and Land Reform (German: Die Geld- und Bodenreform), but it soon closed for financial reasons. During his time in Oranienburg, Gesell started the magazine Der Physiokrat together with George Heinrich Blumenthal. In 1914, it closed due to censorship. In 1916, he published his most famous work, The Natural Economic Order.
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