Music & the Entertainment Economy

This post was co-authored with Ian Swain In his Economix column earlier this month, Edward Glaeser discussed the economic outlook for Atlanta.  He was generally optimistic, using some of the economic geographer’s standard tools in his analysis: Atlanta is its region’s largest urban agglomeration, its politics are pro-business, and a high percentage of its population [...]

Aaron Renn, the Urbanophile, has a brilliant post about how Detroit could embrace its industrial ruins.  I agree with just about everything he says in it.  Here are the key ideas: What if instead of spending a huge amount of money to try to save one building, the city found a little bit of money [...]

Sonic City: The Evolving Economic Geography of the Music Industry by Richard Florida and Scott Jackson Abstract Our research tracks the location of musicians and music establishments in U.S. regions from 1970 to 2004. We find that the music industry has become significantly more concentrated over time. New York and Los Angeles remain dominant locations, [...]