... on Marketplace just now about the latest study on the creative economy. (Story doesn't seem to be up on the Web yet; I'll add a link when it is is up now, over here.)
Basically, if I'm summarizing correctly, this new analysis goes beyond the assertion that a creative class makes a city more attractive to some putatively more productive class, and claims that artists create their own idiosyncratic economies, complete with supply chains and microindustries that otherwise wouldn't exist in that locale.
There's more... this is just my quick, not-enough-coffee take. But it's encouraging.
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