BOOKS

Around the world, more and more people are waking up to the grave seriousness of our present social, environmental, and economic situation, and to the realization that the thinking that has gotten us where we are today will be utterly insufficient for going forward in the healthful, holistic, and humane way that most people desire.

Despite the financial crisis and near-collapse of the economy in 2008, and despite the growing recognition that ‘business-as-usual’ as we now know it is not sustainable, nothing fundamental in our understanding or approach to capitalism has yet changed.

Michael Spence’s After Capitalism offers a truly accessible, yet radically unconventional and eye-opening perspective on the social phenomena of our time. The observations offered here provide a basic framework for individuals to consciously understand for themselves how human society, and particularly the economy, works, raising questions and attempting to demonstrate and stimulate a new kind of thinking all along the way.

Though prompted by Rudolf Steiner’s insights, the book is based, not on any established economic, political, or religious beliefs or theories, but on observation of life. Starting from the perception that society consists of an interweaving of three quite differently functioning sectors, it goes on to show that many of today’s social problems, particularly those involving money and the growing gap between the rich and the poor, are consequences of an inherited social structure founded on remnants of old theocratic forms of community on the one hand and the failure to distinguish between the three sectors of society on the other.

A fresh look at our world is being called for as never before: here is an answer to that call that begs consideration.

Available in print from Steiner Books