Gary Lamb is co-director of the Hawthorne Valley Center for Social Research in New York state. He is a board member for the Institute for Social Renewal and was previously managing editor of The Threefold Review.
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Foreword Editors' Introduction Whom is this Economics Compendium for . . . and not for? The Path We Traveled Ways to Use This Compendium The Compendium as a Thought Organism Clarification of Some Important Terms Repetition of Some of the Quotations Editing of Quotations Acknowledgements 1. Social and Antisocial Forces in the Human Being and Social Life The Need for Inner and Outer Change Rising Individualism and Antisocial Forces The Interplay of Sleeping and Waking in Human Taking Greater Interest in Others: The Foundation of Social Life Creating Social Forces by Consciously Fostering Interest in Others Interest in Others and Economic Life From Personal Opinion to Collective Wisdom 2. The Fundamental Social Law Egoism and Self Interest in Social Life Egoism and Altruism Spiritual Worldview Community Spirit and Spiritual Mission The Influence of an Independent Cultural Life Rights Life and the Will to Work Labor as a Rights or Equity Issue Rather Than an Economic One Fostering Altruism by Overcoming Labor as a Commodity Ways to Overcome Paid Labor 3. The Threefold Social Organism Healthy Social Life is Threefold National and International Relations Transgressing Boundaries as a Main Cause of Social Problems Cultural Freedom Begins with Educational Freedom The Economy and the Political State Implementing Social Threefolding The Relation of the Physiological and Social Organisms True Social Renewal Requires a Change in Thinking 4. Economic Science The Evolution of Economic Life From World Trade to World Economy Constant Fluctuations within the World Economy Picture-Thinking Economics and the Color Spectrum Viewing the Economic Process from the Inside Elements of a New Method for Economic Science 5. Economic Associations Characteristic Features and Dynamics Evolution of the Role of the Individual and the Need for Associations Today Informed, Transparent, and Freely-Formed Agreements Economic Judgments Via Living Associations Insight, Collective Consciousness, and Group-Born Intelligence Balancing Egoism and Love in Economic Life Answering the Need for Constant Price Corrections From Profit Motive to Satisfaction of Human Needs A New Relation of Management and Investors to Workers Associations in Relation to Gift Money and Cultural Life Implementing Economic Associations 6. Economic Values The Economic Process as Context for Economic Value Origin of Economic Values: Labor Transforming Nature Diagram 1: Value Creation Value Creation through the Human Spirit, or Intelligence Transforming Labor Fluctuating Character of Economic Values Consumer Needs and Value Creation Socially Correct Value Consumption, Elimination of Value, and Value-Creating Tension Values and Spiritual-Cultural Work Machines and Cultural Productivity 7. Capital The Social Necessity and Benefit of Free Access to Capital and Property Rights Administration and Transference of Capital Profit Motive and Capital Increase Land and Capital Diagram 2: Economic Cycle: Nature, Labor, Capital Surplus Capital Redefining Ground-Rent and Calculating Subsistence Income Land Rent as Capital and the Support of Cultural Life 8. Credit. Motivation Capability Mutuality and the Service of Lending Personal and Real Credit The Role of Associations in the Giving and Receiving of Credit The Coming Day (Der Kommende Tag) Experiment 9. Money Money as a Measure of Economic Value The Illusory Nature of Money as a Commodity Money as Power Money as Rights and Cultural Capacities Realized Money as Spirit Realized Money as Bookkeeping and Medium of Exchange A New Basis for Determining the Value of Money (Currency) The Relation of Money to Value of Cultural and Political-Legal Work Impersonal Nature of Modern Banking and Finance Taxation Aging Money Purchase, Loan, and Gift Money Diagram 3: Money Cycle: Payment, Loan, Gift Issuing Currency Inflation Money as a Means to Exercise Social Responsibility 10. Price Formation True Price Falsification of Prices Price Fluctuation Associations and Price Regulation Fundamentals of Pricing 11. The Interplay of Spiritual-Cultural and Economic Life Constructive Forces of Spiritual-Cultural Life Capacities and Capital Financial Support of Cultural Life Freedom and Funding in Education Value of Spiritual Work for the Economy as a Whole Resources A Selection of Publishers of Rudolf Steiner's Social and Economic Writings and Lectures in English Basic Texts by Rudolf Steiner on the Threefold Social Organism, Associative Economics, and the Fundamental Social Law Texts by Other Authors Businesses, Organizations, & Initiatives inspired by Rudolf Steiner's Social and Economic Ideas Organizations and Initiatives Working to Some Degree in Harmony with Rudolf Steiner's Ideas Bibliography