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[Economist's View] Education and Inequality in the Creative Age, by Frank Levy, Cato Unbound: Richard Florida writing about the Creative Class is a lot sexier than your average economist writing about Skill Biased Technical Change. Sex aside, these two ideas speak to the same important development.
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[Cato-unbound.org] Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Future of the American Workforce ...: Economic disparity is rising as powerhouse creative regions like San Francisco register rates of income and housing inequality unseen since the 1920s. Incomes in Beijing and Shanghai have risen at three and a half times those of rural China.
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[Cato-at-liberty.org] Cato-at-liberty: In today’s reply to Richard Florida’s lead essay on “The Future of the American Workforce in the Global Creative Economy,” Frank Levy, Daniel Rose Professor of Urban Economics in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, agrees that creativity is more important than ever in a world where computers and foreign workers can do routine work less expensively than domestic workers.
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