Wealth International Limited, Resource Directory: Economics

Before economics carved out its modern-day disciplinary territory, characterized by an emphasis on mathematical modeling with questionable applicability to reality, it was called “political economy.” The scope of the field was interdisciplinary by today’s standards. One will note that the contributors to the field of economics included below invariably made contributions to philosophy, sociology, history and/or polical science as well. This is no accident.

Capitalism.net: The Jefferson School of Philosophy, Economics, and Psychology: “The intellectual voice of capitalism on the internet.” George Reisman’s esssays and news commentaries. Edith Packer on psychology.
The Jefferson School’s purpose to advance and disseminate the philosophical and scientific knowledge that is necessary to the existence of a capitalist society. Accordingly, the School’s primary mission is the further development, application, and teaching of the ideas of the pro-reason, pro-individualist philosophers and the pro-freedom, pro-capitalist economists, and of compatible ideas in the field of psychology. All of its activities and programs feature the relevant doctrines of Objectivist and Aristotelian philosophy and of “Austrian” and Classical economics.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe is one of the most important libertarian scholars of our time. As others have put it: “He has made pioneering contributions to sociology, economics, philosophy, and history. He is the dean of the present-day Austrian School of economics, and is famous as a libertarian philosopher. He and his writings have inspired scholars all over the world to follow in his footsteps and to provide a scientific foundation for individual freedom and a free society.”

Ludwig von Mises Institute: Founded in 1982 as the research and educational center of classical liberalism, libertarian political theory, and the Austrian School of economics. It serves as the world’s leading provider of educational materials, conferences, media, and literature in support of the tradition of thought represented by Ludwig von Mises and the school of thought he enlivened and carried forward during the 20th century, which has now blossomed into a massive international movement of students, professors, professionals, and people in all walks of life. It seeks a radical shift in the intellectual climate as the foundation for a renewal of the free and prosperous commonwealth.
It is the mission of the Mises Institute to place human choice at the center of economic theory, to encourage a revival of critical historical research, and to advance the Misesian tradition of thought through the defense of the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

Murray Rothbard: Murray N. Rothbard was an exceptionally productive scholar of extraordinary range. He made major contributions to economics, history, political philosophy, and legal theory. His combination of scholarly achievement and engaged advocacy on behalf of freedom is unmatched.
Rothbard developed and extended the Austrian economics of Ludwig von Mises (see above). He was the foremost Austrian theorist in the latter half of the 20th century and applied Austrian analysis to historical topics such as the Great Depression and the history of American banking. He combined Austrian economics with a passionate commitment to individual liberty, developing a synthesis that combined themes from 19th-century American individualists such as Lysander Spooner with Austrian economics. A new political philosophy was the result, and Rothbard devoted his remarkable intellectual energy, over a period of some 45 years, to developing and promoting his style of libertarianism. In doing so, he became a major American public intellectual.

People for Mathematically Perfected Economy

People for Mathematically Perfected Economy: “Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection, and the base of a moral existence.” ~~ Ayn Rand
Grass roots movement to establish the Mathematically Perfected Economy™, an economy which does not suffer from credit bubbles and collapses. MPE™ is an integrated solution to: (1) inflation and deflation, (2) systemic manipulation of the cost or value of money or property, and (3) the inherent, irreversible multiplication of debt in proportion to economic activity, which leads to inevitable systemic failure after a finite period due when the terminal sum of insoluble debt is reached. MPE™ is every prospective debtor’s right to issue their promise to pay, free of manipulation, adulteration, or exploitation of that promise, with the natural opportunity to make good on it.

W.I.L. Resource Directory: Economics