Business & Finance
Rethinking America’s Faith in Innovation
Key Points
Author Thomas Frank tells Bloomberg This Weekend that America’s celebration of creativity and innovation has helped justify policies that elevated white-collar knowledge work while contributing to inequality and the decline of manufacturing. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini about his new book, The Creativity Con, Frank argues that innovation is neither uniquely American nor a guarantee of broadly shared prosperity.
Author Thomas Frank tells Bloomberg This Weekend that America’s celebration of creativity and innovation has helped justify policies that elevated white-collar knowledge work while contributing to inequality and the decline of manufacturing. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini about his new book, The Creativity Con, Frank argues that innovation is neither uniquely American nor a guarantee of broadly shared prosperity. (Source: Bloomberg)