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Human progress, to a large degree, has depended on the continual expansion of social networks, which enable faster
sharing and shaping of ideas. And humanity’s greatest social innovation remains the city. As our cities grow larger, the synapses that connect them—people with exceptional social skills—are becoming ever more essential to economic growth.
Richard Florida his colleague Charlotta Mellander have taken a closer look at the metropolitan well-being numbers and found moderate correlations between happiness and other factors, like wages, unemployment and output per capita. The variable they looked at that showed the strongest relationship with happiness was “human capital,” measured as the share of the population with a bachelor’s degree or higher.
By Richard Florida
By Charlotta Mellander and Richard Florida – Dec 2006
By Richard Florida and Jeremy D. Mayer – Dec 2006
By Richard Florida, Newsweek International – July 2006
By Richard Florida, The Times of India – Feb 2006
By Richard Florida and Irene Tinagli – Feb 2004
By Kevin Stolarick, Richard Florida, Louis Musante, Catalytix – Jan 2005
By Richard Florida, The Chronicle of Higher Education – Sept. 15, 2006
By Richard Florida, The Atlantic Monthly – October 2006
By Richard Florida – The Atlantic Monthly, October 2005
By Tairan Li and Richard Florida – Feb 2006
