Brewed Fresh Daily

Not surprisingly, [Richard Florida's] work has garnered criticism from the suburban, industrial-age, squelchers* that are resistant to change. Finally, here's his response, which I'll refer to as Rise of the Creative Class II, as good as a brief modern economic impact analysis can be. The biggest criticism was that the creative class was nothing more than a dot com boom gone bust. The post-dot-com graph above should put that to rest (unless you're one of Florida's staunch critics.) *My hero (Richard's as well), Jane Jacobs, defines squelchers as "those political, business, and civic leaders that divert human creative energy by posing roadblocks and saying "no" to new ideas."