The Economics of Gold
Tuesday July 24
Backing Money:
with Physical or Spiritual Gold?
The question has become acute: what gives money its value?
In former times the gold standard tied the value of currency to the rare metal. Since the freeing of the “floating” dollar, the tie has been loosened and thereby the issuing of money no longer had limits. Must we return to backing money with gold, or go forward to a new way of dealing with money?
Bernhard Steiner
Bernhard was born in 1951 in Basel, Switzerland. He grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
After two years of studying architecture, he attended from 1975-79 the Seminary of The Christian Community in Stuttgart, Germany and in 1977 studied sculpture at the Alanus Art College in Alfter, near Bonn. After completing a study of bio‐dynamic vegetable gardening 1980-82 he worked in commercial b-d gardening. Since 2008 he has been a writer for the magazine “Das Goetheanum.” His book “Geld und Karma” was published in 2010. He is married and has three children.
Michael
and the Economy of the Future
The objective of this lecture is explore the structure
and seeds that need be planted in the human soul to nurture the construction of a new Christian economy based on Rudolf Steiner's view of Anthroposophy and with Michael as humanity's guide in this search for a new science and economy.
Rodrigo Ventre
Rodrigo was a Waldorf school student and works with the Youth Section
of Antroposophical Society in Brazil helping to coordinate seminars and workshops for young people. He studied civil engineering while working in business and in social work. In 2003-04 he trained in Europe in Entrepreneurship – Goetheanum and Associative Economics of Steiner. After returning to Brazil, he founded a consulting company called Vitadenarium with his wife, Luciana to support organizations, families and individuals in the search for a more conscious relationship with money, economics and finances based on Anthroposophy – www.vitadenarium.com. Recently they started a franchise of organic/natural products as a way to experiment with the application of these principles in business.