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Steinerian Economics, compiled and edited by Gary Lamb and Sarah Hearn, is a comprehensive collection of Rudolf Steiner’s statements on economics, drawn from over 40 sources selected from his large body of works currently available in English. It is an indispensable resource for all those who are seeking new perspectives on economics and money. Here, you can experience new ways of understanding social life. The ideas and the method itself become more and more accessible to us as we apply these methods in our own thinking. Our hope is that Rudolf Steiner’s contributions can support us all to take new steps toward a new economy.Perhaps one of Steiner’s most important contributions toward cultural renewal is his method for thinking about social life within the context of human evolution. In relation to current modes of thinking, his work is bold, holistic, human-centered, and inwardly creative. Scientific thinking about evolution gives almost exclusive attention to the outer physical human form that it misses the most important current evolutionary process, the inner process for the development of the independent ego in the individual and the unique-in-nature development of the self-governing human social organism.While there is an abundance of recognition for the seriousness of the problems surrounding us, what is lacking is a scientific basis to understand the problems at their depths and to offer an alternative way of thinking to what is prevalent everywhere today. Current economic thinking does not meet today’s fundamental problems at their source, rather, it habitually functions within the already abstract thinking upon which its main premises are based, and therefore fails to take into account any aspects of phenomena that don’t conform to its preconceived conclusions. To meet problems at their source requires a disciplined phenomena-centered scientific method, one that overcomes the limitations of abstract thinking, the mental habits where essential context can easily be lost. This is what one finds in this book. It points to the foundations upon which we must build our thinking if we are to cope with the evolving demands of social life.