A report in today’s New York Times reveals a large and widening gap in life-expectancies between rich and poor Americans. During most of the previous century, life expectancies tended to improve roughly equally across income divides. Since the 1980s this is no longer the case as poorer Americans see life expectancies improving much slower then [...]
Widening life expectancy gap between rich and poor Americans 03.23.08
Richard Florida’s Creative Social Compact 03.05.08
Richard Florida, responding to a conversation about enabling competition, outlines the beginnings of a “creative social compact.”
The rise of the globalized, idea-driven, creative economy requires a new social compact that goes far beyond the 20th century, industrial age one… [Denmark] has pioneered one of the world’s productive and socially-minded economies. There is little [...]
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