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Ideologies / Georgism / Silvio Gesell
Silvio Gesell — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1862–1930 · Germany / Argentina · Economist & merchant

Silvio Gesell

Free-money, free-land

Natural economic order.

Reformist Georgism →
Economic+22
SocialistMarket
Governance−50
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+45
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The merchant-economist whose 'natural economic order' paired Georgist common land-rent with novel monetary ideas — praised by Keynes as an unjustly neglected thinker.

social

Reformist progressive of monetary heterodoxy.

economic

Common land rent plus 'free money' to keep markets circulating.

governance

Decentralised, anti-monopoly economic order.

Notable for
  • 'The Natural Economic Order'
  • Free-money (demurrage) theory
  • Georgist land reform
land-rentfree-moneymonetary-reform
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