Georg Friedrich Knapp
Georg Friedrich Knapp ( ; March 7 , 1842 – February 20 , 1926 ) was a German economist who in 1905 published "The State Theory of Money" , which founded the chartalist school of monetary theory , which argues that money's value derives from its issuance by an institutional form of government rather than spontaneously through relations of exchange . 
<triplet> Georg Friedrich Knapp <subj> March 7, 1842 <obj> date of birth <subj> February 20, 1926 <obj> date of death