Theresa Abernathy Rosenthal-Davenport (1765 - 1851) was a Gidrakonian economist and Master of the Treasury of the Kingdom of Gidrakon in the late 18th and early 19th century. She is most known for her privatisation of royal assets, cutting down of public services and taxes, and her permissive approach to investment and the accumulation of wealth. She believed that private interests operating in autonomously would generate wealth and allocate it as efficiently as possible: she termed this Autonomism, after eponymous autonomous actors. Her economic strategy is considered the primary force behind Siltwater's explosion in size and wealth throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Autonomism is an economic model by which private entities own the means of production, and have ultimate discretion to use surplus value of labourers how they wish; particularly, to expand their business and accumulate more capital. More poetically, the 'invisible hand' of the market is purported to allocate resources in the most efficient and productive manner possible, according to the principles of supply and demand. This invisible hand ought not be obstructed by regulation of any kind.