The 8th Annual Meeting of the Economics Conference , 27-30 September 2009

Economic Life at the Threshold / Pathways for Another World

The 2009 annual meeting of the Economics Conference of the Goetheanum will focus on the link between the threshold and today’s economic upheavals. It will build on last year’s meeting, which was combined with an international Associative Economics Festival in Canterbury. This year’s meeting will take place from Sunday, 27th to Wednesday, 30th September in Switzerland, at L’AUBIER, near Neuchâtel.

The focus of the meeting will be on how and whether participants are ready to address today’s economic problems in ways that are relevant and credible. Whether it be through his 1922 lectures on economics, seminal texts like Brotherhood and the Struggle for Existence (1905), or his own direct involvement in Der Kommenden Tag, the Waldorf School and especially the refounding of the Anthroposophical Society, Rudolf Steiner points to a world in which economic life has to be seriously rethought. The global economic situation and the threshold experience to which it is linked provide the context for asking: On a basis of spiritual science, what steps can be proposed that will give economic life a truly human orientation?

Six formal sessions will consider prepared contributions on such themes as: the relation between labour and income, how to achieve true pricing in today’s circumstances, the concept and practical forms of associations, and the aging of money. The contributions will be based on papers, written for the occasion, that will then be published.

The event will take place in English and is open to members of the School of Spiritual Science.

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