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Richard Florida is author of the global best-seller The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? a national and international best seller and amazon.com book of the month. His new book, The Great Reset explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity.

He is author of The Flight of the Creative Class and Cities and the Creative Class. His previous books, especially The Breakthrough Illusion and Beyond Mass Production, paved the way for his provocative looks at how creativity is revolutionizing the global economy.

Florida is senior editor for The Atlantic and a regular CNN contributor. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Economist, The Globe and Mail and The Harvard Business Review. He has been featured as an expert on MSNBC, BBC, NPR and CBS, to name just a few.

Richard has also been appointed to the Business Innovation Factory’s Research Advisory Council and recently named European Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation.

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Saving Capitalism from Itself

(1) Comments | Posted May 20, 2013 | 4:36 PM

This piece originally appeared in the Toronto Star.

You don't have to be a Marxist to wonder if capitalism has run its course. Though the stock market is soaring the economic recovery is jobless, millions remain un- or underemployed, and the economies of the world are mired in...

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Casinos Ruin Cities

(0) Comments | Posted April 17, 2013 | 3:51 PM

The debate over a casino in downtown Toronto is coming to a head. Mayor Rob Ford's executive committee of Toronto City Council voted 9-4 in favour of a downtown casino, putting the ultimate fate of the casino before a vote of the full City Council.

Ford said he was...

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Canada's Greatest Competitive Advantage? Our Creativity

(15) Comments | Posted July 19, 2012 | 7:11 AM

Excerpted with permission from The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited: 10th Anniversary Edition, by Richard Florida. Available from Basic Books, a member of The Perseus Books Group. Copyright (C) 2012.

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Four years after the great economic and financial crash of 2008,...

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Canada's Most Creative Cities

(28) Comments | Posted July 12, 2012 | 12:12 PM

This HuffPost exclusive excerpt from Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited: 10th Anniversary Edition is published with permission from the author. Available from Basic Books, a member of The Perseus Books Group. Copyright (C) 2012.


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Creativity has...

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