The GRIT Center at Snow College was funded by the Utah State Legislature and opened November of 2019. Here, through experiential learning, students develop leadership skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. Students have the opportunity to participate in diverse entrepreneurial programming and win funding to put their ideas into action through GRIT Center pitch competitions.
Seminar Series - Gale L. Pooley, Economist and Writer
Wed, Mar 19
|The GRIT Center
Time & Location
Mar 19, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM
The GRIT Center, 151 S Main St, Ephraim, UT 84627, USA
About the Event
Gale L. Pooley is an economist, writer, and co-author of the award-winning book, Superabundance: A Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet. This book has been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Reason, Epoch Times, L’Express, Nius Diario, and the Times of India. The book received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award from the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2023, the Leonard E. Read Book Award from Freedom Fest in 2024, and was a two-time finalist for the F. A. Hayek Award from the Manhattan Institute.
The book has been translated into Spanish and Polish. Pooley has taught at a wide variety of institutions, including Utah Tech University, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Boise State University, and the College of Idaho. He teaches The Economics of Human Flourishing course…