richard-florida – mammoth // building nothing out of something

Tag Archives: richard-florida

March 7, 2010 – 3:54 pm

productivity signaling and size borrowing

Ryan Avent, who maintains the indispensable blog The Bellows, is one of my favorite writers on economics and urbanism. He recently drew attention to two interesting papers which are related to his response to an article in the the American Prospect by Alec MacGillis which was critical of Richard Florida (which mammoth previously highlighted). Avent contends […]

By Stephen | Posted in economics, urbanism | Also tagged , , | Comments (2) | Permalink
January 7, 2010 – 1:36 pm

florida, continued

Since I posted a link to Alec MacGillis’s piece on Richard Florida, it’s worth also posting links to Ryan Avent’s critique of the piece, MacGillis’s response, and Avent’s response-to-the-response-to-his-critique. [update: see also the Next American City‘s commentary]

By rholmes | Posted in asides | Also tagged , | Comments (1) | Permalink
January 5, 2010 – 2:45 pm

“the ruse of the creative class”

Alec MacGillis has an appropriately harsh look at a decade of Richard Florida in the American Prospect. [via @loudpaper]

By rholmes | Posted in asides | Also tagged | Comments (1) | Permalink
May 7, 2009 – 11:36 am

light-based regional product

Shouldn’t Florida just say: “I ranked the world’s cities based on how bright they are from space”?

By rholmes | Posted in asides | Comments Off on light-based regional product | Permalink