Customer Review: An interesting look at why place matters more and more despite the increasing trend towards global talent markets and location-free jobs. Florida's analysis is well-written and easily accessible, but I wonder if the data he presents is overly dumbed-down to be accessible to the general public. It's... more info
Customer Review: A local newspaper just reported that Microsoft will be opening an Innovation Center here in Boston. Having just finished Richard Florida's Rise of the Creative Class, I found the news to make a lot of sense. In this book, Florida lays out snapshots of economic patterns, developments and... more info
Customer Review: The "creative class" is much to broad a description for what Mr. Florida attempts to describe as an autonomous mass. Yes, there is a global competition for skilled workers, yes, several companies are outsourcing jobs, but no, these workers are not a sort of uber-elite "creative class", they are... more info
Customer Review: My hunch is this is a cheap sequel. Not a lot of discussion, just a lot of (regression) results reporting. Extremely repetitive. Moreover, given that this often verves into being fairly social science (as opposed to pop), the causal linkages seem pretty poorly established. If you want to read this... more info
