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The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Classand Who's Your City?,comes a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008-09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to "reset." In doing so, he paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like—of how we will work and live—in the future.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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