Christopher Houghton Budd

Christopher Houghton Budd is an economic and monetary historian with a doctorate in banking and international finance (Cass Business School, London). As director of the Centre for Associative Economics he works independently in many contexts ranging from mainstream to “green,” from central banks to organic farms. He has made a special study of the economics works of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner.

Houghton Budd writes frequently on economic affairs and has published a number of books including Prelude in Economics (1979), Of Wheat and Gold (1988), The Metamorphosis of Capitalism (2003), Rare Albion: A Monetary Allegory (2005), and Finance at the Threshold (2011). They are available online from cfae.biz/publications or in the U.S. from Steinerbooks.com.