{"product_id":"rethinking-economics-rudolf-steiner","title":"Rethinking Economics by Rudolf Steiner","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e14 lectures in Dornach, July 14-August 6, 1922 (CW 340)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6 seminars in Dornach, July 31-August 5, 1922 (CW 341)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“In this age of social, economic, and ecological disruption, many people are beginning to realize that perhaps the most important root causes for this crisis originate in an economic thinking that is increasingly out of touch with the social, ecological, and spiritual realities of our time. How, then, can we rethink and redefine the fundamental economic concepts that frame our discussions and shape our key institutions in society today? This is the big question on the table today. Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on economics ... offer a largely unused gold mine of fresh economic ideas that could not be more timely and relevant” (from the foreword).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The whole Earth, considered as an economic organism, is the social organism. Yet this is not being taken into account anywhere. It is precisely because of this error that the whole science of political economy has grown so remote from reality. People want to establish principles that are meant to apply only to an individual cell. Hence, if you study the French theory of economy, you will find it is constituted different from English or German or other economic theories. But as economists, what we really need is an understanding of the social organism\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein its totality”\u003c\/i\u003e (Rudolf Steiner).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRudolf Steiner gave this complex sequence of dense, subtle, multileveled lectures and seminars to students of economics in Dornach, Switzerland, during the summer of 1922. The course reflects a lifetime of thinking on the subject and marks the conclusion of his intense five-year period of activism in the service of social, political, and economic issues. During this time, which began as World War I was ending in 1917, he worked tirelessly to promote the cause of what he called “threefolding” (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDreigliederung\u003c\/i\u003e), by which he meant rethinking the social order on the basis of clear separation and independence of the three fundamental spheres of activity that make up a society. He proposed three independent systems:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e∞ an autonomous rights sphere (limited to judicial and political matters)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e∞ an autonomous economic sphere (cooperative or associative by nature)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e∞ and an autonomous spiritual-cultural sphere\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe autonomy of these three spheres, he believed, would make possible a free, healthy, productive society and open the possibility of a lasting peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRethinking Economics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the true nature of an economy and how it works. Steiner presents the basic elements of what it would take to create a just, socially responsible, and ecologically aware economy today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLectures:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. The Transition from Industrial, National Economies to a World Economy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. The Fluid Nature of Economic Processes\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Economics and Egotism\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Labor and Value\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. The Production and Consumption\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Price, Cultural Activity, and Gift\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Price Formation\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Supply and Demand\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. Trade, Loan, and Industrial Capital\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. Associations\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11. World Economy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12. Money\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13. Spiritual-Cultural Needs\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e14. World Economy: Living Concepts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeminars:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Points of Method and “The Social Question”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Economics, Physical Processes, and Concepts of Work\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. The Division of Labor and the Relationship between Consumers and Producers\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Value and the Nature of Work\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Capital and the Monetary System\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. The Use of Money; Threefolding the Human Being and the Social Organism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis volume is a translation from German of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAufgaben einer neuen Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Bd.1, Nationalökonomischer Kurs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(GA 340) and\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAufgaben einer neuen Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Bd.2, Nationalökonomisches Seminar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(GA 341), published by by Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach, Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"The Josephine Porter Institute","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37426624823460,"sku":"9781621480495","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0017\/4473\/2221\/products\/rethinking-economics-by-rudolf-steiner-rudolf-steiner-lectures-the-josephine-porter-institute-533566.jpg?v=1757689279","url":"https:\/\/www.jpibiodynamics.org\/products\/rethinking-economics-rudolf-steiner","provider":"The Josephine Porter Institute","version":"1.0","type":"link"}