World Economy
CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT At the end of the First World War, in striking contrast to President Wilson�s �self-determination of nations�, Rudolf Steiner was proposing for the rebuilding of Europe, the division of the social organism into three separate spheres, dealing respectively with cultural and educational affairs, with matters of human rights, and with economics and production. Each sphere was to have its own frontiers, character and objective, and the whole was to offer the ground for a renewal of culture based on a social order which is natural and intrinsic to all life. The lecture series, World Economy, deals principally with the economic sphere, but it has also much to say concerning its relation with, and dependence on, the other spheres as well. Although the form in which Steiner first developed his proposals for a �threefold commonwealth� was oriented towards Central Europe and the circumstances of the time, they are based on deep insight into the new social and economic forces which were then so plainly emerging but were so little understood. The prevalent modes of thinking of the day were not ready for Steiner�s radical proposals; but today we are being forced by the inadequacy of our social and economic institutions to look for solutions which grow from a deep understanding of man himself. It is in the light of such an understanding that Steiner approaches such crucial questions as the relation of wages to production, the proper function of capital, finance and the different forms of money; the ownership of land�and many other matters of vital importance to our modern commercial society. Behind this economic analysis stands the picture of a truly human society, in which man can find himself as producer, as citizen, and as free agent in harmony with his fellow men. Trans: A. O. Barfield, T. Gordon-Jones 14 lectures, Dornach 24 July to 6 Aug 1922, GA340
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
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