Quotes
20 July, 2009
Entrepreneurship
“People like Linus Torvalds creating his Linux and Craig Newmark with his Craigslist remind us of what Schumpeter (1934) almost a century ago stated about entrepreneurial motivation: it is more about the joy of creating and fighting than about accumulating personal wealth.“
Bengt Johannisson | 2007
Experience Economy
“There are some sorts of industry, even of the lowest kind,
which can be carried on nowhere but in a great town”
Adam Smith | 1776
“Could it be possible, that one of the highest industries,
could be better carried on in a provincial town?”
Freire-Gibb | May 2008
“I see the experiences, but where is the economy?”
Official in North Jutland (Denmark) | Spring 2009
Frederikshavn
“How then is possible to generate such enthusiasm and visibility in Frederikshavn – a city which, just a few years ago, was almost synonymous with unemployment and lack of clear identity? (…) [T]aking unconventional approaches leads to the creation of something special. So when we work together, across all kinds of boundaries, we can achieve things what we could never accomplish alone.“
E. Sørensen, Mayor | 2007
“Frederikshavn in northern Denmark will be the first medium-sized city in the world to be exclusively supplied with electricity, heat and power for transportation from renewable energy sources”.
Royal Danish Ministery of Foreign Affairs | 2006
Global economic crisis
Aren’t we sick yet about stories about housing? The answer is no, we’re not.
Mike Mandel | June 4, 2009
[I fear that most macroeconomics of the past 30 years are] “spectacularly useless at best, and positively harmful at worst”.
Paul Krugman | June 2009
“The June employment report suggests that the alleged ‘green shoots’ are mostly yellow weeds that may eventually turn into brown manure…”
Nouriel Roubini (aka Dr. Doom)| Jul 2, 2009
“If global city stagnation ever does occur, it will inexorably cause economic life everywhere to stagnate and deteriorate, and there will be no way out: no existing vigorous cities to intervene, no young cities arising (…) If that were to happen, we may be sure that as the practice of developing city economies vanished, the memory of how the thing is done would vanish too (…) We all have our nightmares about the economic life; that one is mine“
Jane Jacobs | 1984 last paragraph of the “Cities and the Wealth of Nations”
23 July, 2009 at 17:45
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