To Clarify
by Robin Hanson
The Conversation
June 19th, 2006
Just to be clear, I don’t claim that Richard intended at any point to enter the culture wars, or to advocate for a political viewpoint. And as a theorist, I am not taking a position on the quality or conclusions of his empirical analysis. His argument combines empirical claims of certain observed regularities with theoretical [...]
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Mobile Human Capital and the Culture Wars
by Richard Florida
The Conversation
June 19th, 2006
This is good—really good. I like Robin’s persistence. He makes me think. And that’s always good. Let me take some time to reply. First off, I think the passage Robin quotes from my book speaks for itself. There is a correlation between these two things, the gay index and the bohemian index and (1) innovation [...]
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