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March 10, 2010

Emerson College rescue bid amid controversy over earlier funding plan

FOREST ROW (NNA) – Emerson College, the international centre for adult education based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, is set to close in the summer unless a bid to turn...


March 02, 2010

Associative Economics Café

By Daniel Osmer, February 22, 2010

Sebastopol, CA, USA

The first Associative Economics Café Sebastopol took place a few weeks ago at the Youth Annex.


March 02, 2010

Higher Notions of Economics, Accounting and Equity

Associative Economics Intensive Course - February 5-14, 2010, England

with Christopher Houghton Budd, Stephen Torr, Frances Zammit

Report by Kim Chotzen

Perspectives

Author: Arthur Edwards

Author: Carlos Jaime Loch
Associative economics is often emphasized in terms of joint operation between producers, traders, and consumers. More recently, it has also been connected to critiques of the negative effects of international speculative capital flows. But these examples present only the external aspect and are often to one side of our personal daily lives and work places. Opportunities can thereby be lost to develop associative economics from a more immediate, organizationally internal perspective.

Author: Arthur Edwards
When in 1924 Rudolf Steiner told a British audience: “whether or not your accounts may or may not be to your neighbour’s disadvantage - this is determined by the heart centre” he was challenging head-on the go-it-alone nature of Anglo-Saxon economic egotism.

Author: Jesse Osmer
The modern world increasingly relies on abstractions that have little to do with life. Nowhere is this better exemplified than inmodern economics, whose starting point is far fromactual experience in an abstruse world of abstraction, based on questionable assumptions.

Author: Meg Freeling
The following ideas are offered as entry points into the picture of the world as one economy presented by Rudolf Steiner in 1922 to university economics students.  Steiner emphasized that the fundamental shift we are experiencing from nation-state economies to a humanity-wide, world economy requires some corresponding shifts in our thinking.

Author: Christopher Mankowski
Associative economics is a new perspective, awareness and understanding of what economics is. It distinguishes economics as something alive and natural that cannot be understood through one static definition.