Florida’s latest book, “The Great Reset,” argues that the financial crisis of 2008 will bring new patterns
of living, working, and consuming that will require novel real estate solutions over the next 20
to 30 years. This column takes Florida’s theories at face value and asks him to turn them into actionable
advice for REIT executives and investors.
Ontario Business Report interviews Richard Florida on The Great Reset and where we are now.
Richard Florida has spent the past decade talking about the virtues of the Creative Class and its ability to drive economies. The Great Reset, his fifth book on the Creative Class takes a somewhat contrarian view on the current thinking on the economic recession. The view is contrarian in that it’s more optimistic, and rooted in a belief that members of the Creative Class have the skills and talent to lead the global economy out of the current economic crisis.
Marketplace Money looks deep into the mixed signals Americans get on saving (more) and spending (more). It’s a conundrum. Richard Florida thinks we’re in the process of solving the conundrum by changing the way we live.
Five recent Big Think Books come from brand name authors, each with major capacity to produce and distribute.
This column provides a glimpse of key themes in each of these books including Richard Florida’s, The Great Reset and some analysis of the controversial issues on which the authors agree and disagree.
Jodi Schwan of the Sioux Falls Business Journal interviews Richard Florida. Florida mentions Sioux Falls in his new book, The Great Reset, as a community that might be vulnerable in the financial services sector.
Economic forces, regulatory pressure and the community’s desire for higher-paying jobs have combined to throw the future of the financial services sector into uncertainty. For financial services to thrive in Sioux Falls, a generation’s worth of thinking has to change, according to industry and community leaders.
Richard Florida on the economic crisis and its effects on work and the workplace.
Transcript of Richard Florida’s on air interview with CNN’s Ali Velshi’s Your Money discussing the impact of government budget gaps.
