Showing posts with label Karl Denninger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karl Denninger. Show all posts

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Jon Matonis — Bitcoin Obliterates "The State Theory Of Money"

The economic contribution of [Karl Denninger's] essay is that it represents the thesis advanced by German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp in The State Theory of Money (1924), an expose advocating the Chartalist approach to monetary theory claiming that money must have no intrinsic value and strictly be used as tokens issued by the government, or fiat money. Today, modern-day chartalists are from the school of thought known as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).
Forbes
Bitcoin Obliterates "The State Theory Of Money"
Jon Matonis