Den kreative klasse: Forskelle mellem versioner

Whyte konstaterer, at:

:"''Glaeser takes on its statistical basis, Florida's bohemian index. Using data from 242 cities provided by Florida, Glaeser, an economic geographer, found that the overall "bohemian effect" on economic growth in America was driven by two of the 242: Las Vegas and Sarasota, Fla. "Excluding those cities," he wrote, meant that "bohemianism becomes irrelevant. "Given that I will never believe that either Las Vegas or Sarasota stand as stellar examples of bohemianism, I will draw another conclusion," he wrote: "skilled people" – not artists, by any measure – "are key to urban success."'' ".<br/>

Steven Malanga har efterprøvet Floridas udsagn på dennes eget datagrundlag on konstaterer, at tværtimod Floridas påstande viser det sig, at de byer, som rangerer som de mest "kreative" nærmest undergår de mindst "kreative" med hensyn til jobskabelse:

:"''..since 1993, cities that score the best in Florida's analysis have actually grown no faster than the overall U.S. jobs economy, increasing their employment base by only slightly more than 17 percent .. his top cities haven't even outpermormed his bottom ones''" (og om disse bundplacerede byer: "''.. Florida's ten cities turn out to be jobs powerhouses, adding more than 19 percent to their job totals since 1993 - faster growth even than the national economy.''" Han fortsætter: "''Jobs data going back 20 years, to 1983, show that Florida's top ten cities as a group actually do worse, lagging behind the national economy by several percentage points, while his so-called least creative cities continue to look like jobs powerhouses, expanding 60 percent faster than his most creative cities during the same period.''" Han sammenligner med en undersøgelse foretaget af "National Commission on Entrepreneurship" i 2001 kaldet "Mapping America's Entrepreneurial Landscape" viser grove fejl i Floridas metode. Ydermere konstaterer han, at Floridas "kreative" byer ikke blot ikke er i stand til at tillokke kreative personer men endda mister dem, de har. At byerne alligevel vokser, skyldes tilkomst af ukvalificerede migranter og konstaterer, at "''the U.S. residents they loose are, by and large, better educated and wealthier than the migrants they attract.''"<ref>Malanga</ref>