Editor’s Note:
Richard Florida is best known for his best-selling books The Rise of the Creative Class,
Cities and the
Creative Class, and The Flight of the Creative Class.
More recently he wrote The
Great Reset.
However in this The Economist conference
he presents on the vitality of creativity as the true generator of wealth.
Richard Florida is an American urban studies
theorist. Florida's focus is on social and economic theory. He is currently a
professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of
Management at the University of Toronto. Prof. Florida received a PhD from Columbia
University in 1986. Prior to joining George Mason University's School of Public
Policy, where he spent two years, he taught at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz
College in Pittsburgh from 1987 to 2005. He was named a Senior Editor at The Atlantic in March 2011 after serving as a correspondent
for TheAtlantic.com for a year. Florida's
theories are the source of both praise and controversy. Florida's ideas have
been criticized from a variety of political perspectives and by both academics
and journalists. His theories have been criticized as being elitist, and his
data have been questioned. Researchers have also criticized Florida's work for
its methodology.
“For the first time in history we
are no longer critically dependent on physical resources or physical labor,
large factories and simple technology to generate wealth. Those things are all
important but they can be done more cheaply in the emerging economies.” —Professor
Florida
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