As part of our mission to increase civil engagement and academic rigor, the Institute of Government and Politics hosts several book clubs for students of any major and background. IOGP Book clubs are a great way to interact with your peers and network with professional alumni. The books are chosen and hosted by our distinguished alumni, who are accomplished individuals who take valuable time out of their week to sit down with students and speak aboout engaging topics. If you have any questions about book labs or would like to host one yourself, please reach out to Sara Jensen at sara.jensen@usu.edu.
In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change.
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." The social business model has been adopted by corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across the globe. Its goal is to create self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth as they produce goods and services to fulfill human needs. In Building Social Business, Yunus shows how social business can be put into practice and explains why it holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise.