Economy
The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited
A new economic and social order is a double-edged sword: it unleashes incredible energies, but it also causes tremendous hardships.
The following is an abridged version of the preface to The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited, out this month from Basic Books.
It’s been ten years since I published – and a bit longer than that since I wrote – The Rise of the Creative Class. It would be an understatement to say that a lot has changed since then. We’ve see a whole series of world-shattering events—from the collapse of the tech bubble and 9/11, to the economic and financial meltdown of 2008, any one of which might have been sufficient to derail or reverse the changes in America’s class structure and the economic cultural and social trends I described in that book.