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Modern finance through Rudolf Steiner’s eyes
An introductory course with Dr. Christopher Houghton Budd*
12 Saturdays (9.00 to 10.00), 26 September 2010 to 9 July 2011
Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London, Nr. Baker Street Station
* Christopher Houghton Budd is an economic and monetary historian with a doctorate in banking from Cass Business School, London. He has been a student of Rudolf Steiner’s work for over forty years. Combining practical entrepreneurial knowledge and academic rigour, his experience includes small-scale businesses, local politics, school governance and research into the financial markets.
‘Financial markets are like the mirror of mankind, revealing every hour of every working day the way we value ourselves and the resources of the world around us [so that] it is not the fault of the mirror if it reflects our blemishes as clearly as our beauty.’ – Niall Ferguson
‘It means extinction and death to the economic body when we deprive the individual of his initiative, which must proceed from his spirit and take part in the ordering of the means of production purely for the benefit of human society.’ – Rudolf Steiner
There is perhaps no greater challenge today than understanding modern finance. Many of today’s pressures derive from the way we behave or are expected to behave in regard to finance; pressures that are only increased by lack of understanding and the bewilderment and disempowerment this can bring. This is even more the case if one sees finance as something merely outer and not as the deeply spiritual event it in reality is. By bringing together two themes normally kept apart – finance and the threshold – and by spanning from the big picture to hands-on, from comprehension to competence, this course is designed to equip participants with an appreciation of modern finance, cladding them against an often otherwise harsh environment.