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Bookstore > CHB/Collected Works > Full CHB/CW List > Sketches in Sociology

Sketches in Sociology in link with Rudolf Steiner

Christopher Houghton Budd

Publication: 2021

Price: £12.50

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The social sciences are something of a hybrid, attempting to base their investigations of a supremely non sense-perceptible world on the methods of the ‘hard’ sciences. Following the unfolding of his first academic career as a sociologist, they track the author’s journey at the start of what became a fifty-year period. The book touches on methodology, especially the science of the (physically) invisible, doing so in link with the work of Rudolf Steiner. But the author’s enquiry – which is on-going – has been an original and independent one, including consideration of the ideas of Karl Marx.

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Bookstore > Associative Economics Worldwide > Books by Christopher Houghton Budd > 3x3x3

3x3x3 A Study of Rudolf Steiner’s Economics Course

Christopher Houghton Budd

Publication: 2021

ISBN: 978 0 948229 74 9

Price: £7.50

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Conducted in three sessions at three weekly intervals over three terms, this study considers Rudolf Steiner’s Economics Course as a whole in order to further our understanding of its deeper purpose and current-day relevance. The study was mindful of the need in Steiner’s view, expressed in late 1919, that with the promulgation of the Treaty of Versailles world historic responsibility passed to the Anglo-American peoples. Ever since, in both theory and practice, the Anglo-Saxon approach has dominated economic affairs, so that any endeavour to bring Steiner’s ideas into modern debates must address this problem, showing how his ideas can lead even the Anglo-Saxon mind, with its strong bias towards individualism and separateness, into a landscape more appropriate to today’s conditions of a single global economic life, conditions that call for partnership, synergy and working together. This, rather than everyone for oneself, is the natural outcome of today’s extensive degree of division of labour.

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Bookstore > CHB/Collected Works > Full CHB/CW List > Johannine and Michaelic Economics

Johannine and Michaelic Economics Christianising Economic Life

Christopher Houghton Budd

Publication: 2021

Price: £17.50

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Based on a series of lectures given in North America, this book is an excursion into wholly unknown territory – the field of Johannine and Michaelic economics. Such a topic does not admit to simple definition, so this volume is discursive. Spanning from Abraham to the present day, topics include the link to the John Gospel, the meaning of finance, and the relationship between gift money and global capital. Accompanied by chalk drawings from the lectures, centre stage are the contributions to economics of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Rudolf Steiner regarding the challenge of replacing today’s brain-based economic culture with the language of The I Am. Why Michael? Because he is the regent of all things cosmopolitan – to wit, today’s global economy. But also the Industrial Revolution, based on iron, and modern credit creation, when these are understood as a reflection of the increasing phenomenon of initiation through economic affairs.

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Bookstore > CHB/Collected Works > Full CHB/CW List > Putting the I in Economics

Putting the I in Economics Economics in the Light of Anthroposophy

Christopher Houghton Budd

Publication: 2021

Price: £10.00

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Given that conventional economics wholly disbelieves in the propensity for humanity to be other than self-interested, it is to be wondered that anyone could entertain the idea that the human I, the essence of every individual, may yet be the clue to a viable economic life for all, not just some. And yet, there is an ‘I’ in economics… What this might mean is explored in this series of lectures, albeit by placing centre-stage Rudolf Steiner’s role and contribution in this field.

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Bookstore > CHB/Collected Works > Full CHB/CW List > Economic Biographies

Economic Biographies Notable contributors to economic history

Christopher Houghton Budd

Publication: 2021

Price: £7.50

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Along the way of my journey with economics, I have ‘met’ a number of people, about whom I was asked to write or felt I ought to introduce myself to, as it were. That is the simple logic behind the choice of people included in this book. With the exception of Machiavelli, they are all in their different ways something akin to heroes in the evolution of economics. Meaning that their contributions should be studied by any one who wishes to develop an ecumenical rather than myopic understanding of modern economic life, for without such breadth of research we will not escape the divisive nature of economics to which, unfortunately, we have become habituated.

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Keynes, Marx, Steiner, Aristotle

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Bookstore > Associative Economics Worldwide > Books by Rudolf Steiner > Threefold the Social Order

Threefold the Social Order

Rudolf Steiner

Publication: 1996

ISBN: 978 0 948229 21 3

Price: £5.00

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In 1922, Rudolf Steiner contributed to a conference at Manchester College, Oxford on the subject of spiritual values in education and social life. As part of this conference he gave these three talks belonging to his endeavour to avoid economic nationalism. With such nationalism now entrenched under the guise of competition policy, Steiner’s insights, concerns and remedies continue to be both apt and relevant.

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Bookstore > Associative Economics Worldwide > Books by Christopher Houghton Budd, Marc Desaules, Anita Grandjean and Christian Thal-Jantzen > Step into Another World

Step into Another World

Economic Life as a Medium for Modern Initiation

Christian Houghton Budd, Marc Desaules, Anita Grandjean and Christian Thal-Jantzen

Publication: 2019 / 105pp / PB colour

ISBN-10: 0 948229 14 5 / ISBN-13: 978 0 948229 14 5

Price: £12.50

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The world is falling into a seemingly endless mire of economic problems – failing democracy, poverty, the north-south divide, unstable markets, and wars of all kinds. What is the reality behind this? For Rudolf Steiner, for example, economic life is not something in and for itself, but an expression of spiritual conditions. When we find ourselves surrounded by so many negative events, therefore, we can be sure this is a sign that something fundamental is happening to humanity, but that we have yet to understand this experience. In this festival we would like to explore the possibility that today’s economic events provide a context and medium for modern initiation. If this is true and if it could be made a conscious experience, we would have a wholly new perspective on modern life and find ways to overcome the paralysis, fear, and sense of impotence that today’s conditions are engendering.

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Bookstore > Associative Economics Worldwide > Books by Christopher Houghton Budd, Marc Desaules, Arthur Edwards and Marc Theurillat > Towards True Pricing and True Income

Towards True Pricing and True Income

2009 Conference Proceedings

Christopher Houghton Budd, Marc Desaules, Arthur Edwards and Marc Theurillat

Publication: 2019 / 63pp / PB b&w

ISBN-10: 0 948229 44 6 / ISBN-13: 978 0 948229 44 2

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‘True price’ is the cornerstone of associative economics. The idea has antecedents reaching back through Thomas Aquinas’s ‘just price’ to Aristotle’s ‘mean’. It alludes to the fact that people can have a sense for what is right in economic affairs, a sense that is especially human and not given by the state or the market. In Rudolf Steiner’s work, of which these essays aim to be an elaboration, true price is expressed in a formula which was likened by Steiner to Pythagoras’s theorem – succinctly worded but comprehensive in its meaning and relevance and application.

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Bookstore > Associative Economics Worldwide > Books by Rudolf Steiner > 12 Key Thoughts

12 Key Thoughts

Rudolf Steiner

Publication: 2019

ISBN: 978 0 948229 41 1

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Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) Born in the south of then Austria, Rudolf Steiner was to unfold an extensive legacy of work, based on a conception of the world that combined the material and the spiritual. Providing deep insights into the inner nature of the human being and humanity’s purpose on earth, Steiner’s world conception has given rise to wide-ranging practical work in all fields of life from medicine to art, agriculture to education. This book reproduces some of his key insights in the field of economics.

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Bookstore > CHB/Collected Works > CHB/CW Full List > La Economia Moderna

La Economia Moderna El Yo y la Economia

Christopher Houghton Budd

Publication: 2019

ISBN: 978 0 948229 00 0

Price: £10.00

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Dado que la economía convencional no cree en la propensión de la humanidad a no ser por interés propio, cabe preguntarse si alguien podría considerar la idea de que el yo humano, la esencia de cada individuo, puede ser la clave para una vida económica viable para todos, no sólo para algunos. Y sin embargo, hay un “yo” en economía… en inglés “I”. Lo que esto podría significar se explora en esta serie de conferencias, aunque poniendo en el centro el papel y la contribución de Rudolf Steiner en este campo.

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