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#	Name	Era	Lifespan	Role
1	Silvio GesellFreigeld, demurrage, natural economic order, stamp scrip	Classical	1862–1930	Theorist
2	Friedrich A. HayekDenationalisation of money, currency competition, knowledge problem, spontaneous order	Austrian	1899–1992	Economist
3	Bernard LietaerComplementary currencies, monetary ecology, Terra TRC, yin/yang money	Modern	1942–2019	Theorist
4	Margrit KennedyInterest-free money, regional currencies, demurrage in practice	Modern	1939–2013	Theorist
5	Lyn AldenHard money, monetary debasement, energy economics, Bitcoin macro	Modern	1985–	Researcher
6	Irving FisherQuantity theory of money, 100% reserve banking, compensated dollar, Fisher equation	Classical	1867–1947	Economist
7	L. Randall WrayModern Monetary Theory, sovereign currency issuance, taxes-drive-money, employer of last resort	Post-Keynesian	1953–	Economist
8	Narayana KocherlakotaMoney as memory, monetary policy theory, mechanism design	Modern	1963–	Economist
9	Helmut CreutzCompound interest critique, Freiwirtschaft, debt-money systemic effects	Modern	1923–2017	Theorist
10	James RobertsonSovereign money, monetary reform, sane alternative economics	Modern	1928–2020	Theorist
11	Charles EisensteinGift economies, sacred economics, demurrage, negative interest	Modern	1967–	Theorist
12	Richard DouthwaiteEcological economics, regional currencies, energy-backed money	Modern	1942–2011	Economist
13	Thomas H. Greco Jr.Mutual credit, credit clearing, post-monetary exchange	Modern	1936–	Theorist
14	Brett ScottCashless society critique, monetary anthropology, fintech politics	Modern	1980–	Researcher
15	Josh Ryan-CollinsMonetary policy unconventional tools, helicopter money, land economics	Modern	—	Economist
16	Mahmoud A. El-GamalIslamic finance, riba prohibition, equity-based money	Modern	—	Economist
17	Biagio BossoneBank seigniorage, financial systems, IMF policy	Modern	—	Economist
18	J.P. KoningMonetary history, stablecoins, CBDCs, private money	Modern	—	Researcher
19	Haseeb QureshiStablecoin taxonomy, crypto investing, mechanism design	Crypto	—	Builder
20	Kathleen TysonMulticurrency mercantilism, FX systems, payments infrastructure	Modern	—	Researcher
21	Ester BarinagaCommunity currencies, social entrepreneurship, monetary commons	Modern	—	Researcher
22	Ben PouladianTokenised dollar architecture, stablecoin policy, monetary plumbing	Crypto	—	Researcher
23	Ethan BuchmanMutual credit at internet scale, monetary cycles, Tendermint consensus	Crypto	—	Builder
24	Martin KöppelmannUBI tokens, prediction markets, social money	Crypto	—	Builder
25	Christian RieckGame-theoretic money, dignity-based currencies, Digni Geld	Modern	—	Economist
26	Satoshi NakamotoProof-of-work, fixed supply, peer-to-peer electronic cash	Crypto	—	Builder
27	Michael UnterguggenbergerStamp scrip, demurrage in practice, municipal money	Classical	1884–1936	Builder
28	Zoltan PozsarShadow banking, Bretton Woods III, collateral hierarchies, dollar plumbing	Modern	—	Economist
29	Luke GromenSovereign debt cycles, FX wars, gold remonetisation, fiscal dominance	Modern	—	Researcher
30	Ludwig von MisesRegression theorem, Austrian business cycle, sound money, calculation problem	Austrian	1881–1973	Economist
31	Carl MengerOrigins of money, marginalism, methodological individualism, salability	Classical	1840–1921	Economist
32	Hyman MinskyFinancial instability hypothesis, hedge/speculative/Ponzi finance, endogenous money	Post-Keynesian	1919–1996	Economist
33	John Maynard KeynesBancor, international clearing union, demand management, liquidity preference	Classical	1883–1946	Economist
34	Knut WicksellNatural rate of interest, cumulative process, pure credit economy	Classical	1851–1926	Economist
35	Perry MehrlingMoney view, hierarchy of money, dealer of last resort, money market plumbing	Modern	1959–	Economist
36	Saifedean AmmousHard money, time preference, stock-to-flow, Bitcoin standard	Crypto	—	Economist
37	Nick SzaboBit Gold, smart contracts, shelling out, social scalability	Crypto	1964–	Builder
38	Hal FinneyReusable proof-of-work, PGP, cryptographic cash	Crypto	1956–2014	Builder
39	Wei Daib-money, distributed digital cash, cryptographic protocols	Crypto	—	Builder
40	Adam BackHashcash, proof-of-work, sidechains, Bitcoin scaling	Crypto	1970–	Builder
41	George SelginFree banking, productivity norm, monetary equilibrium	Austrian	1957–	Economist
42	Lawrence H. WhiteFree banking, monetary institutions, Scottish banking history	Austrian	1954–	Economist
43	Murray Rothbard100% gold reserves, fractional-reserve critique, anarcho-capitalism, free-market money, Austrian business cycle	Austrian	1926–1995	Economist