The Rise of a New Knowledge/Creative Economy: Prospects and Challenges for Economic Development, Class Inequality, and Work

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 458-471

  Leslie, Deborah ^a   Rantisi, Norma M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Creative class thesis as practice; Direction of causality, between urban growth and human capital; Human capital approaches to economic development; Implications of the new economy, for economic development policy; Late twentieth century, epochal shift in within Western advanced economies; Nature of work in the new economy; Transition to a knowledge based economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874296246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384497.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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