Karl Knies

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Karl Gustav Adolf Knies (1821-1898) was a German economist.

Karl Gustav Adolf Knies
Karl Gustav Adolf Knies

He is known as the author of Political Economy from the Standpoint of the Historical Method, one of the 19th century methodological treatises on German historical school of economics. He taught in Heidelberg for over 30 years and was maybe the most theoretically oriented economist of the older historical school.

Some of his works are:

  • Statistics (1850)
  • Political Economy from the Standpoint of the Historical Method, (1. ed., 1853, 2. ed., 1883)
  • Money and Credit (1873)


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