Activist, author, and film-maker John de Graaf  looks beyond the current downturn to explore the assumptions underlying our economy. In an election cycle that is focused on our economic future, his new book What’s the Economy For, Anyway? offers a fresh perspective on quality of life, health, security, work-life balance, leisure, social justice, and perhaps most important, sustainability.

How can we measure economic success?  Nationally?  Individually?  What is the role of growth in a 21st-century economy?  What role can governments play in creating economic success?  What is the individual’s role?

Wednesday, October 10 @7:00 pm

Mass Ave at Church Street (Harvard Square)