The creative compact : Economic and social agenda for the creative age

What is needed is a new Creative Compact - a Creative Economy analog to the great social compact of the 1930s, 40s and 50s which expanded and accelerated the Industrial Economy and led to the great golden-age of prosperity. [...] At bottom this Creative Compact must harness the full creative capabilities of the workforce in ways that simultaneously improve productivity and extend the benefits of the Creative Economy across industrial and service workers as well as the creative class. [...] America has shown its incredible transformative capabilities time and time again, leading the world out of the Great Depression, winning World War II, saving Europe and the world from the grip of fascism, overcoming the Soviet threat, and rebounding in the 1980s from the onslaught of European and Asian competition in manufacturing industries. [...] To both prevent widespread social unrest and benefit economically from the creative input of the maximum number of its citizens, the U. S. will have to find ways to bring the service and manufacturing sectors more fully into the creative age. [...] Such an expansion of urban investment is a win-win-win situation; it reinvigorates our older centers, takes the pressure off the new ones, and results in a stronger overall system of cities with which the U. S. can compete against the rest of the world in the global creative economy.