To lose one star economics professor to a minor-league competitor could be
considered a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. And it turns out
that Nobel laureate Vernon Smith isn’t the only GMU economics
professor to be leaving
the department. According to Thomas Heath in the Washington
Post today, Richard Florida is on
his way out too:
Economist and author Richard Florida, who became a faculty star at George
Mason University for his pioneering work on "the creative class,"
has left the Fairfax County university for a post at the University of Toronto’s
Rotman School of Management.
Whither GMU’s economics department now?