Jeder, der sich mit Geld und Banken im Deutschen Reich in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts beschäftigt, kennt den Namen Alfred Lansburgh. Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung nannte ihn "in Sachen des Geldes vielleicht einen der klügsten Menschen, die in Deutschland je gelebt und...

This paper analyses the early years of the history of the Bundesbank from a history of economic thought-perspective. The study uses the example of Bernhard Benning, who was heading the Economics Department of the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft, one major banks owned by the German Reich during the...

In the history of economic thought, monetary theories in the German-speaking world of the early modern era are considered backward compared to the approaches in other European countries. This backwardness can be shown by two authors from the middle of the 18th century, who were not only...

The monetary ideas of Georg Friedrich Knapp have recently resurfaced in the context of the Modern Monetary Theory whose representatives see themselves in his tradition. The historical debate on Knapp's "State Theory of Money," which divided opinion when it was first published in 1905 as well as...