Beware ‘the Creative Class’. Creativity and Wealth Creation Revisited
By J. Montgomery. 2005
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Subfields: Urban Studies
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- The cultural and creative industries: a review of the literature (2007, background): “Though thick with statistics the Florida’s book is marked by an absence of any empirical investigation into what is, in fact, only very circumstantial evidence (Healy, 2002b; Peck, 2005; Montgomery, 2005; Nathan, 2005; Markusen, 2006a).”
- Unrewarded careers in the creative class: The strange case of bohemian graduates (2010, unknown): “This is also the view of Montgomery (2005) which is an advocate of the importance of creative industries rather than creative class in local development.”
- The creative countryside: Policy and practice in the UK rural cultural economy (2010, background): “While Florida’s work has attracted growing criticism for its ‘identikit’ solutions (Chatterton, 2001; Jayne, 2004, 2005; Montgomery, 2005; Nelson, 2005; Oakley, 2004; Peck, 2005), the underlying equation of cities and creativity remains largely uncontested, especially in policy circles.”
- Creativity Economy and a Crisis of the Economy? Coevolution of Knowledge, Innovation, and Creativity, and of the Knowledge Economy and Knowledge Society (2012, background): “In his critique of this approach, Montgomery [43] ironically concludes that “creative entrepreneurs tend to be attracted to cities where it is possible to enjoy the arts, entertainment and good food.” Montgomery [ 43 ] and Nathan [44 ]i dentify serious problems and confusions in understanding the “c”
- The Payoff to Skill in the Third Industrial Revolution1 (2013, background): “…more than that, suggests that the payoff to creative skills may not be growing quite as quickly as some “creative class” theorists have suggested ðsee Montgomery 2005; Markusen 2006Þ. Technical Skills It is frequently noted that, under an SBTC account, the payout to cognitive skills should be…”