The League was set up by Paul Bieleski, a retiree who, as a student gained degrees in Science and Chemical Engineering from Canterbury University in Christchurch NZ. He did a little work in the chemical industry and also did some research work in Britain. On returning to NZ he took up a career in computing, working for 15 years with IBM and then lecturing at Massey University in Computer Science. He then did some consulting, contracting and software development. During this later period he went back to University, doing some units in Economics. As a born again scientist, he found the economics education conflicted with the nature of science, hence ultimately deciding that economics is so phoney, that it needed exposing as a fraud.