Come to the first book club meeting of the quart this Friday at 1:30 in the PoE commons! Regular meeting times will be determined at the first meeting.

This quarter’s first book is Gus Speth’s ’The Bridge At the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability’. 

The book shows how purely economic growth focused ideologies only produce citizen welfare up to a moderate point, at which the cost of using the earth’s energy savings and feeding consumer culture does not produce happier people. 

This takeaway fits the mission of the book club by enabling an educated and seriously legitimate challenge to the ‘growing’ ideology of the U.S. market. How would someone support an economic system that rethinks corporate boundaries, and requires that social costs cannot be an economic externality? Come to book club to discuss this issue and more!