Richard Florida discusses what makes a state’s labor force more or less likely to work longer weeks and get higher pay.
His result: Education seems to play a big role in how long a state’s average resident works, and for what wage.
The tale of the economy’s remarkable turnaround is largely the story of swift reaction, a willingness to write off bad debts and restructure, and an embrace of efficiency—disciplines largely invented in the U.S. America still leads the world at processing failure, at latching on to new innovations and building them to scale quickly and profitably. “We are the most adaptive, inventive nation, and have proven quite resilient,” says Richard Florida, sociologist and author of The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity.
Since 2007, Americans have suffered through the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression. Florida is among a growing number of researchers who think that these are signs that the United States is becoming a nation of renters, and that the shift could be good for our pocketbooks, the economy and even our happiness.
This research examines the effect of skill
in cities on regional wages. In place of the extant literature’s focus on human
capital or knowledge-based or creative
occupations, we focus our analysis on actual skills.
Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, talks about that book and his next one, The Great Reset, as keynote speaker for the opening of the Creative Cities Summit at the Lexington Center.
Florida is the keynote speaker at the opening of the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington, a three-day international conference of people focused on economic development and revitalization of their communities.
Richard Florida, author of Who’s Your City? featured in Business Management Review’s Profile column.
According to Dallas Business Commentary Examiner, Robert Morris there is no one else who generates more and more valuable insights concerning the evolution of the U.S. culture than does Richard Florida.
Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander find that occupational or “creative class” measures tend to outperform educational measures in accounting for regional wages per capita across their sample of Swedish regions.
The National Post reveals the most promising-sounding books by Canadian authors of the next three months.
In his book The Great Reset, Richard Florida examines the need to understand that classroom education is merely one phase of a continuous process of learning, discovery, and engagement that can occur anywhere and anytime.
Richard Florida discusses how American ingenuity—which is often foreign ingenuity—is waning because the world’s most talented individuals are either not coming to America or are being seduced away from America by such countries as Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
The bestselling author worries about the consequences of so many American-educated MBAs starting their careers in Asia.
Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Peter J. Rentfrow examine the role of post-industrial structures and values on happiness across the nations of the world. They argue that these structures and values shape happiness in ways that go beyond the previously examined effects of income.
This study by Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander examines the effects of post-industrial economic structures and values on smoking and obesity.
Richard Florida takes a look at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. When you account for population size, medal count reveals a crude measure of what’s behind national athletic excellence.
South Korea has clawed its way out of poverty by becoming a manufacturing powerhouse. But to stay a world-class economy will require the country to draw on a different set of skills. In the future, it will be the ability to create—as distinct from the ability to produce—that will foster innovation, and with it, sustainable economic growth. Whether it is new ideas, new business models, new cultural forms, new technologies, or new industries, it is creative capital that will drive the world economy. The ability to harness creativity will be the biggest challenge, as well as the biggest opportunity, for South Korea.
Richard Florida his colleague Charlotta Mellander have taken a closer look at the metropolitan well-being numbers and found moderate correlations between happiness and other factors, like wages, unemployment and output per capita. The variable they looked at that showed the strongest relationship with happiness was “human capital,” measured as the share of the population with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
Author Richard Florida to speak at Texas Tech University Presidential Lecture and Performance Series February 5, 2010.
Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and professor of business and creativity at the University of Toronto, will offer his revolutionary insight to Lubbock’s business leaders and students at Texas Tech.
The recession’s reshaping the country in surprising ways, according to author Richard Florida.
Big economic events — like the one we’re in now — change the map of America. They make winners and losers. They change where we live and work and what we do.
Acclaimed urban theorist Richard Florida says that on the other side of this economic bust, America’s economic geography will be different. Some cities, towns, regions will roar back to new prosperity. Others, he says, may find a reshaped economy passing them by. Some may be history.
CBC News sits down with this bestselling author, an influential academic who’s advising top politicians on how to reshape the economy, and ask: when the recession ends, which industries and which companies will be left standing? And how will your city fare?
George Strounboulopoulos talks with Richard Florida about this time of great reset for our economy.
Urban theorist Richard Florida is the author of the controversial book, The Rise of the Creative Class, which argues that creative people living in densely populated regions are the driving force for 21st century economic development.
More recently, he’s written about “How the Crash Will Reshape America” in the The Atlantic monthly. Florida says the U.S. economy will flourish if we allow it to “reset,” and encourage policies that would concentrate a highly mobile American population in compact cities.
With Detroit home prices at record lows, is this the end of a great American city or its best chance for a revival? How will the crash reshape America? That is the title question of Richard Florida’s piece in the Atlantic this month.
How the collapse of the Big Three automakers might actually turn out to be a good thing for Detroit.
Now more than ever, companies need unconventional thinking to work within the new rules set by the economic recession. Richard Florida has persuasively demonstrated how artists, scientists, engineers, writers, musicians and more can revitalize an entire city from urban decay. With today’s companies in a similar situation, what can members of the Creative Class do for businesses? Discussion of where new hires might come from and the impact they can make.
Michael Lind argues New York and London are in for the biggest fall… Not so fast.
The economic crisis appears to be causing a slight but noticeable shift from the suburbs to the cities, according to an analysis of recent Census data by Brookings demographer William Frey, reported in the Wall Street Journal.
Writing in The Atlantic, I argued that the economic crisis was reshaping America’s economic geography, with big city centers and mega-region hubs like New York City, talent-rich regions like greater D.C., and college towns weathering the storm relatively well, while Rustbelt cities and shallow-rooted Sunbelt economies being much harder hit.
The Texas Tech Presidential Lecture & Performance Series premiers its spring season this February 2010 with best-selling author Richard Florida.
Richard Florida gave a very compelling presentation in Albany on September 24, 2009 on how the Capitol Region is one of the top “Creative Class” areas.
Article for Revista Nueva, general interest national magazine in Argentina, reflecting interview with Richard Florida on Who’s Your City?
Article from Ex Exportador, belonging to the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade, on talent management.
Why are Americans becoming less nomadic? Greater labor mobility helps the economy, but are there other kinds of effects — negative or positive — related to a more rooted population? Is there an upside to more Americans staying closer to their hometowns?
Florida predicts the current Great Recession, like its predecessor international economic crises, “will accelerate the rise and fall of specific places within the U.S. — and reverse the fortunes of other cities and regions”. This may not bode well for the Capital Region.
In an interview with EurActiv, Richard Florida, author of ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’, said European countries are battling to attract and retain innovative people.
The creative class – innovative knowledge workers in all sectors of the economy – will rule the 21st century. So argued social scientist Richard Florida in a seminal article (and later a book), written in 2002. But what does it mean for creative class employees to show leadership? And what does this imply for conventional leadership?
STAR is one of four initiatives from the Creative Community Leadership Project in cooperation with the city of Roanoke and the Creative Class Group. This was the first of a series of three open-door discussions about diversity and inclusion.
The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a think tank, professional association and educator in talent management strategies, announced that Dr. Richard Florida, widely regarded as one of the most influential scholars on the shift to the new knowledge economy, will headline HCI’s inaugural National Human Capital Summit, to be held in Chicago April 6-7, 2010.
Dr. Richard Florida speaks at The Art of Transition event hosted by the Region of Durham’s economic development and tourism department November 12, 2009.
The Rise of the Creative Class ranks 9th on The Globe and Mail’s list of best selling business books.
Dr. Richard Florida is the keynote speaker at The Art of Transition, hosted by the Region of Durham’s economic development and tourism department, Nov. 12, 2009 at the Ajax Convention Centre.
The Spectator asked urban economist and Who’s Your City? author Richard Florida a few questions about the impact of the Pan Am Games on Hamilton and area.
Looking to exercise body and mind and leave a positive mark on society, retiring baby boomers are shunning gated communities for vibrant cities and towns.
An in depth interview with Richard Florida on the creative class and a most interesting palm reading.
”The Creativity index appeared to be one of the best metrics to understand sales performance at Cirque. And correlation are strong, therefor we will be now using this metric to anticipate sales performance and better forecast.
Alexandre AlleMarket Insight Advisor, Cirque du Soleil
