Those aren't economists, bro. They're colloquially referred to as "Batshit Crazies."
I know, I know. You're more intelligent and better informed than James Rickards, Ellen Brown, Bill Holter, Bix Weir, Martin Armstrong, Porter Stansberry and all the rest. But all the same, it's kind of arrogant to call them crazy.
They're crazy tho. The ones not trying to sell you shit, that is: their books, their politics, their coin, their YouTube vids, nothing--doing time for fraud, books/vids to pay fines for fraud--in that order.
There's a question that is sometimes asked that seems appropriate: "Has any country ever printed its way to prosperity?" The answer is no. Printing money doesn't create wealth; it just steals it from the poor.
It's a question that makes as much sense as "what color is 2." It's nonsensical, it's ill-formed.
If the question is "has any fiat-based country ever become more prosperous," the answer is fuck yeah!
Finally, what is the difference between printing money and printing (mining) Bitcoin? How can printing* Bitcoin "create wealth"? Stop listening to loons & learn basic economics, brah.
*14% of all bitcoins in existence were "mined" this year.