Showing posts with label culture and economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture and economy. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

The Flight of the Creative Class

Intriguing findings and arguments by Richard Florida in this follow up book to "The Rise of the Creative Class".

I like the part where he argues that if we "[p]ut these three ideas together -- that creativity is the most important source of wealth in the modern world, that every human being is creative, and that people everywhere place a high value on engaging creative work -- and you begin to see the scope of the [economic] transformation." The book seems primarily addressed to U.S. audience though.

Would be interesting to think about and see this happen in emerging economies in a slightly different way (Read: Bottom-up)