BOOK REVIEW: The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, by Richard Florida, Copyright 2002.
Florida classifies occupational categories as consisting of the: Creative Class (30%), Working Class (26.1%), Service Class (43.4%), Agriculture (0.4%).
Reinforces the importance of creativity at all levels in the workplace … “ensuring that the creativity of the many is tapped and that the benefits of the Creative Age are extended to everyone.”
Challenges the Creative Class to take more of a leadership role in addressing three issues: : (1) investing in creativity to ensure long-run economic growth, (2) overcoming the class divide that weakens our social fabric and threaten economic well-being, and (3) building new forms of social cohesion in a world defined by increasing diversity and beset by government fragmentation.
Quoting Paul Romer: “We do not know what the next major idea about how to support ideas will be. Nor do we know if will emerge. There are, however, two safe predictions. First, the country that takes the lead in the twenty-first century will be the one that implements an innovation that supports the production of commercially relevant ideas in the private sector. Second, the new meta-ideas of this kind will be found. ” pg. 319
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