Denison’s yearlong, campus-wide “consumption” theme lecture series hosts Stephen Marglin at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9, in Higley Hall Auditorium (100 Ridge Road). Marglin’s lecture, titled “Why is Enough Never Enough?” will examine economics and consumer culture in the United States, and why thinking like an economist fuels the financial crisis. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Marglin is the Walter S. Barker Chair in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and author of “The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Communities.” He has contributed to many aspects of economics with published papers and books that consider the foundations of cost, benefit analysis, the workings of the labor-surplus economy, the organization of production, the relationship between the growth of income and its distribution, and the process of macroeconomic adjustment. His work has been translated into many languages, including Spanish, French, German and Japanese.

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CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville—Denison University Consumption Series presents Stephen Marglin at 4:30 p.m. on Tue., Feb. 9, in Higley Hall Auditorium (100 Ridge Road). Free and open to the public. For more information call 740-587-6369 or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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