Website resources

Website resources

An ever-expanding list of valuable Internet resources for all things economic and political. If you have a suggestion, please contact us here. Happy browsing!

Free-Market Resources

http://mises.org/
Advancing the scholarship of liberty in the tradition of the Austrian School.

http://acton.org
Integrating Judeo-Christian Truths with Free Market Principles.

http://www.fee.org/
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), one of the oldest free-market organizations in the United States, was founded in 1946 by Leonard E. Read to study and advance the freedom philosophy.

http://www.econlib.org/
The Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought.

http://reason.com/
Reason is the monthly print magazine of “free minds and free markets.” It covers politics, culture, and ideas through a provocative mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews.

www.freestateproject.org
The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire.

www.chartercities.org
Charter cities are special reform zones that allow governments to quickly adopt innovative new systems of rules, rules that can be markedly different from those in the rest of the country.

www.seasteading.org

Designed to further the long-term growth of the seasteading (migrating to sea colonies) movement.

http://www.flowidealism.org/
FLOW is an emerging movement dedicated to liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good™ and focusing it on the goals of sustainable peace, prosperity, and happiness for all, in the next 50 years.

Statist Resources

http://www.usa.gov/
USA.gov makes it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
Paul Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page and continues as professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

http://www.marxists.org/
The Marxists Internet Archive is an all-volunteer, non-profit public library, started more than 20 years ago in 1990.

Offshore investment and living

http://www.escapeartist.com
“Live where you want to live  . . . Live how you want to live  . . . and make money doing it!”

Macroeconomics

http://www.usdebtclock.org/
A mind boggling view of the U.S. economic picture.

http://www.chrismartenson.com/
Explains the three E’s of the economy, energy, and the environment and how they are interrelated in the world-wide problems we face.

Microeconomics

www.eartheasy.com/live_simplify.htm
Offers ideas on simplifying with sustainable living as its core focus.

www.37signals.com/rework
Contains several pertinent ideas on how to run a business simply and smoothly in the Internet age.

www.becomingminimalist.com
Offers unique guides to living an ‘intentional life’.

Third-party ratings agencies

www.bbb.org
The Better Business Bureau aims at providing information about business practices based on customer feedback. Slow and sometimes inconclusive, but could be useful.

www.yelp.com
Touts “Real people. Real reviews.” for a way to rate companies and inform consumers of the practices that businesses perpetrate.

www.consumersearch.com
Consumer Search offers a user-friendly system that promises to ‘simplify the complex’ by collecting reviews, analyzing picks, and formulating recommendations.

www.bauerfinancial.com
Bauer Financial provides a database of ‘very carefully’ researched information and an easy-to-use rating system to gauge the strength of banks.

Alternative banking

www.icba.org
Independent Community Bankers of America

http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/find-a-bank
Move Your Money, a campaign aimed at encouraging individuals and institutions to divest from large Wall Street banks and move funds to local financial institutions.

http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/local_currencies.html
The site to browse is The E. F. Schumacher Society, which promises to link people, land, and community by building local economies and also offers a list of alternative currencies now in use.

http://www.bitcoin.org/
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network.

Localism

www.locavores.com
Dedicated to the community of locavores in the San Francisco area with ideas that might be applied elsewhere.

www.foodtree.com
Provides information about food with regard to quality and origination.

http://openfarmtech.org/
Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that has been imagining and creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform.

Voting Resources

www.certifiedconstitutionalcandidate.com
Certified Constitutional Candidate, which issues certificates based on candidates’ willingness (voiced and proven) to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

www.cagw.org
Citizens Against Government Waste, which offers a No Pork Pledge and Congressional Ratings among other features.

www.theprometheusinstitute.org
The Prometheus Institute, which offers a Do-It-Yourself Democracy application for viewing pertinent laws, alerting authorities to local problems, and information on how to run for office, among other programs.

www.campaignfreedom.org
The Center for Competitive Politics.

www.downsizedc.org
Downsize DC.

www.thirty-thousand.org/
A case for reapportioning Congressional representatives.

Blogs

http://www.galtsgulchorbust.com/
One part libertarian theory, one part survivalism, one part angry ranting manifesto, and a whole lot of current events.

http://bytestyle.tv/
Politics, news, food issues… you name it.

http://code-interactive.com/ad-in/
The online companion to the book series “How to Take Advantage of the People Who Are Trying to Take Advantage of You”.

http://cafehayek.com/
A blog dedicated to the ideas of Friedrich A. Heyek and the principles of Free-Market Capitalism.

http://www.davidharsanyi.com/
In addition to a twice-weekly column, David’s writings on politics and culture have appeared in various national outlets.

http://www.medaille.com/distributivism.htm
This site is a repository for some of John C. Medaille’s writings on Distributivism and other topics.

http://www.freerepublic.com/
America’s exclusive site for God, Family, Country, Life & Liberty constitutional conservative activists.

http://www.parapundit.com/
Stepping out of the box to look at events.

http://bill-starr.blogspot.com/
Homeschooling, pro-liberty, anti-war, free-market, Austrian economics, history, politics.

http://www.bowyerbriefing.com/
The work and insight of Jerry Bowyer of Pennsylvania, financier, economist, and contributor to major news organizations.

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