Glossary

The Rights State in Anthroposophy

The rights-state is the political sphere of Steiner's threefold society, reduced to its proper task of safeguarding equality before the law. It governs the relations of adult human beings as...

The Circulation of Commodities in Anthroposophy

The circulation of commodities is Rudolf Steiner's term for the way goods travel as merchandise through the whole economic body, much as blood travels through a living organism. In World...

Labour as Commodity in Anthroposophy

Labour as Commodity in Anthroposophy names the arrangement Rudolf Steiner judged unworthy of the human being: the worker carries his labour-power to market and the employer buys it with a...

Land and the Economy in Anthroposophy

Land and the Economy in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's claim that land is not a commodity but the ground on which all commodities are made. In The Social Question as...

The Just Price in Anthroposophy

The Just Price is Rudolf Steiner's name for a right or true price, the rate of exchange that lets a producer go on producing. In his 1922 economics course, given...

World Economy in Anthroposophy

World Economy is the term Rudolf Steiner gave, in his 1922 economics course of the same name, to the fact that the whole earth now forms one economic body. Trade,...