Project 01↗
The Value Creators
A ten-module entrepreneurship course and media platform that teaches business as a process of creating value for customers.
Businesses · Universities · Independent learners
View project →Austrian economics—applied
Ideas become useful when people can put them to work.
The Kingman Institute turns enduring economic principles into practical education for people who build businesses, strengthen communities, and shape the culture around them.
See the projects →01 Our purpose
We bridge economic theory and human action.
Economics is not merely something to study. It is a way of understanding how people discover needs, create value, make choices, and cooperate.
Our projects bring those ideas into businesses, classrooms, homes, and communities. We build education that respects local knowledge, entrepreneurial judgment, individual responsibility, and the creative power of free people.
02 Projects of the Institute
One institution.
Many ways to apply the ideas.
Project 02↗
Local Enterprise Initiative
A community field-lab model that helps local people turn the demand created by major investment into useful, locally owned enterprise.
Communities · Corporate partners · Entrepreneurs
View project →03 What holds the work together
Human judgment
People create value by noticing, learning, adapting, and making decisions no formula can make for them.
Customer value
Healthy enterprise begins with another person’s need. Profit follows value created, delivered, and recognized.
Local knowledge
The people closest to a problem possess knowledge that distant planners and generalized models cannot replace.
Practical education
An idea proves its worth when a student, entrepreneur, family, or community can act on it.
04 Economics in action
A book by Hunter Hastings and Mark Packard
Venture Mode puts entrepreneurial economics to work inside the modern organization.
Business needs more value creators—and fewer systems that smother judgment, imagination, and initiative.
In Venture Mode, Hunter Hastings and Mark Packard challenge the bureaucratic model of management and offer an entrepreneurial alternative built around customer value, discovery, agile execution, and leaders who can act under uncertainty.
The book is a clear example of the Kingman Institute’s larger purpose: translating sound economic thinking into principles that people can use to build better businesses and institutions.
Purchase Venture Mode ↗05 Meet the founders
Katie Phipps Hague
Writer, educator, entrepreneur, and longtime builder of practical economic education.
Contact Katie →Hunter Hastings
Entrepreneurial economist, educator, co-creator of The Value Creators, and co-author of Venture Mode.
Contact Hunter →06 Support the work
Build practical economic education with us
Choose the work you want to advance.
Tell us which effort you would like to support. We will help with the appropriate next step and provide the Institute’s nonprofit documentation.
The Institute Fund
Support new curriculum, public education, research, and the work required to move sound economic ideas into practical use.
Start a giving conversation →Local Enterprise Initiative
Fund community research, workshops, teaching, and tools that help local people build around major investment.
Start a giving conversation →The Value Creators
Help make entrepreneurial education available to business leaders, students, and independent learners.
Start a giving conversation →The Kingman Institute
Education for people who intend to build.
We are developing the next generation of practical economic education. We are building the foundations of a free and prosperous civilization.
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