The vision of reformer Silvio Gesell
ABSTRACT
During the first decades of the 20th century, German Reformer Silvio Gesell (1862-1930) championed with a certain success the reforming wave of the epoch bycomplementing ingenious solutions to some of the most important economic issues of his timewith theoretical insights that were as radical as they were penetrating. The purpose of this paper isto offer an introduction to such intuitions, whose validity had been recognized even by a fewdistinguished academics of the 1930s, but which, owing to the extreme complications thateventually mired German intellectual production in its quasi-entirety before WWII, failed topreserve the deserved consideration, however slight, they had earned when first formulated. Areappraisal of Gesell’s contributions, considering the importance of his main themes, may beworthwhile, all the more so as these deal with questions unsolved to this day.
Keywords: Money, Interest, Economics, Philosophy, Social economics
