Editing Anthroposophy (section)

===Social finance and entrepreneurship===
{{See also|Social finance}}
Around the world today are a number of banks, companies, charities, and schools for developing co-operative forms of business using Steiner's ideas about economic associations, aiming at harmonious and socially responsible roles in the world economy.<ref name="Essential" /> The first anthroposophic bank was the ''[[GLS bank|Gemeinschaftsbank für Leihen und Schenken]]'' in [[Bochum]], Germany, founded in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gemeinschaftsbank für Leihen und Schenken |url=http://www.gls.de/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529145719/http://www.gls.de/ |archive-date=2013-05-29 |access-date=2013-12-31 |publisher=Gls.de}}</ref>
[[Socially responsible investing|Socially responsible banks]] founded out of anthroposophy include [[Triodos Bank]], founded in the [[Netherlands]] in 1980 and also active in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], Germany, [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] and [[France]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 April 2017 |title=Is Triodos the ethical bank that could replace the Co-op? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/29/triodos-ethical-bank-replace-co-op-bank |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411010936/https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/29/triodos-ethical-bank-replace-co-op-bank |archive-date=11 April 2021 |access-date=19 March 2021 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Other examples include [[Cultura Sparebank]] which dates from 1982 when a group of Norwegian anthroposophists began an initiative for ethical banking but only began to operate as a savings bank in [[Norway]] in the late 90s, La Nef in [[France]] and RSF Social Financein [[San Francisco]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Earth Times |url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,132566.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101160356/http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,132566.shtml |archive-date=2014-01-01 |access-date=2013-12-31 |publisher=Earth Times}}</ref>

Harvard Business School historian [[Geoffrey Jones (academic)|Geoffrey Jones]] traced the considerable impact both Steiner and later anthroposophical entrepreneurs had on the creation of many businesses in organic food, ecological architecture and [[sustainable finance]].<ref name="Jones2017">{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Geoffrey |title=Profits and Sustainability. A History of Green Entrepreneurship |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-019-870697-7}}</ref>