Gary Kilgore North was an American writer,Austrian School economic historian,and leading figure in the Christian reconstructionist movement. North authored or coauthored over fifty books on topics including Reformed Protestant theology,economics,and history. He was an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute.
In Christian eschatology,postmillennialism,or postmillenarianism,is an interpretation of chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation which sees Christ's second coming as occurring after the "Millennium",a Golden Age in which Christian ethics prosper. The term subsumes several similar views of the end times,and it stands in contrast to premillennialism and,to a lesser extent,amillennialism.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote on the philosophies of history,religion,aesthetics,education,and law.
The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is an obscurely funded right-wing think tank and pressure group in the United Kingdom. Its goal is to promote coherent and practical policies based on its founding principles of:free markets,"small state," low tax,national independence,self determination and responsibility. While being independent,the centre has historical links to the Conservative Party.
Lionel Charles Robbins,Baron Robbins,was a British economist,and prominent member of the economics department at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is known for his leadership at LSE,his proposed definition of economics,and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Marshallian direction. He is famous for the quote,"Humans want what they can't have."
Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis was known for his contributions in the field of economic development. In 1979,he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Christian reconstructionism is a fundamentalist Calvinist theonomic movement. It developed primarily under the direction of Rousas Rushdoony,Greg Bahnsen and Gary North and has had an important influence on the Christian right in the United States. Its central theme is that society should be reconstructed under the lordship of Jesus in all aspects of life. In keeping with the biblical cultural mandate,reconstructionists advocate for theonomy and the restoration of certain biblical laws said to have continued applicability. These include the death penalty not only for murder,but also for idolatry,open homosexuality,adultery,witchcraft and blasphemy.
Rousas John Rushdoony was an Armenian-American Calvinist philosopher,historian,and theologian. He is credited as being the father of Christian Reconstructionism and an inspiration for the modern Christian homeschool movement. His followers and critics have argued that his thought exerts considerable influence on the evangelical Christian right.
Lloyd Craig Blankfein is an American investment banker who has served as senior chairman of Goldman Sachs since 2019,and chairman and chief executive from 2006 until the end of 2018. Previous to leading Goldman Sachs,he was the company's president and chief operating officer (COO) from 2004 to 2006,serving under then-CEO Henry Paulson.
The Chalcedon Foundation is an American Christian Reconstructionist organization founded by Rousas John Rushdoony in 1965. Named for the Council of Chalcedon,it has also included theologians such as Gary North,who later founded his own organization,the Institute for Christian Economics.
Willem Hendrik Buiter CBE is an American-British economist. He spent most of his career as an academic,teaching at various universities. More recently,he may have been Chief Economist at Citigroup.
Sir Ivor Martin Crewe DL FAcSS was until 2020 the Master of University College,Oxford,and President of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and also a Professor in the Department of Government at Essex.
John Livingston Weinberg was an American banker and businessperson,running Goldman Sachs from 1976 to 1990.
Paul Joseph Sachs was an American investor,businessman and museum director. Sachs served as associate director of the Fogg Art Museum and as a partner in the financial firm Goldman Sachs. He is recognized for having developed one of the earliest museum studies courses in the United States.
Dame Diane Coyle is a British economist,academic and writer. Since March 2018,she has been the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge,co-directing the Bennett Institute.
Stephen Michael Alan Haseler was a British academic and advocate for a British Republic. He was a Professor of Government,author of many books on contemporary politics and economics.
Conor A. Gearty KC (Hon),is the Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE Department of Law. From 2002 to 2009,he was Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. His academic research focuses primarily on civil liberties,terrorism and human rights.
Cornelius Van Til was a Dutch-American reformed philosopher and theologian,who is credited as being the originator of modern presuppositional apologetics.
Harold Joseph Laski was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1926 to 1950. He first promoted pluralism by emphasising the importance of local voluntary communities such as trade unions. After 1930,he began to emphasize the need for a workers' revolution,which he hinted might be violent. Laski's position angered Labour leaders who promised a nonviolent democratic transformation. Laski's position on democracy-threatening violence came under further attack from Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the 1945 general election,and the Labour Party had to disavow Laski,its own chairman.
Richard Gnodde is a South African investment banker. He is the vice chairman of Goldman Sachs and the chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs International.
