With its many and wide-ranging implications for modern economic life, associative economics places human beings at the centre of all economic processes. Our capacity to be both free and responsible means we can make conscious what is otherwise left to the unconscious working of market forces and that we can therefore regulate our own behaviour and thus obviate the state's role in this regard.

As represented in the Centre, the nature and significance of associative economics takes full account of wide ranging views from Aristotle to Adam Smith, Karl Marx to J M Keynes and Milton Friedman, as well as the 'sustainability critique' and the sophistications of modern finance. It also owes much to the observations of Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian 'renaissance man' whose seminal work was concerned with the advent of global economics.

To explore associative economics in more depth visit the Associative Economics Association or see those items marked ** under Publications. For those interested in participating in online group discussions in this area, please visit the independently operated AE-Exchange.