During the Clinton presidency democratic strategist James Carville, was fond of saying, "It's the economy, stupid."
Much the same could be said today.
The stimulus and all the federal policies in the world will not help if all we do is prop up the old economy. It is rather the new economy, the creative economy begging for attention.
John Howkins, author of The Creative Economy (2001), says that anyone with a good idea can make money. He defines creative industries as occupations like advertising, architecture, graphic design, filmmaking, authors, painters and the like which you can count in the few millions. Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class (2004), claims 38 million people as among the new creative class.
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Author: John M. Eger
