Richard Florida is famous for his works on the rise of the creative classes. Who is your city? is an exploration into how clusters develop wrapped up under the guise of a self-help book. Florida looks at the characteristics of different cities (predominantly in North America) and explores factors that attract people at different life stages. ...

... a slum dweller as many of the characters do in Makers. This is a geek economy for  young skillful and creative engineers who have very little need for regular salaries and benefits ... cool geeky stuff for people to by but making money is not much of a concern of theirs. Throughout the book, “adults” will do that for them. It is actually when they are faced with adult responsibilities that ...

... am a huge fan of Richard Florida's view on the creative class from his book and I have written posts on it before. He wrote his book a number of years ago but with the current economic crisis its starting to come ... I couldnt embed the video but check it out on his site here here is another interesting article he wrote on how the creative class could change the US economy for ever

... things steampunk, while railing against DRM. But he writes fiction, too -- under a Creative Commons license, of course. Following the success of Little Brother (in which a clutch of ... for free), where two fringe inventors defibrillate a collapsed economy with 3-D printers and an FDR-ish "New ... of digital goods." So at his packed Harvard Book Store appearance on Monday night, he must've ...

... small class work: Unveiling the Relationship between the US Economy and Video Game Industry “Our group ... hypothesis that video game sales are unaffected by changes in the economy. The results are somewhat complicated though as earlier data from the video ... 8221;. It leads me to Shumpeter and his great book. Are incumbents fighting against creative destruction? It appears they are. It is great ...

... at the top of the chain where $500,000 wouldn’t be an unusual fee for doing a book. On down the scale, a figure of $25,000 is more likely. Lately, like so many “service” sorts of jobs, ... a ghost in India or some similar environ – where English is used fluently and the economy is, what’s the term, backward? The outsourced 200-page book might run between $3,000 and $5, ...