Killer of Giants: Megafrontier takes on the world’s leading scholars

I’m launching a new series where I challenge the ideas of the most preeminent scholars in the world. No, I’m not gonna fight guys like Paul Krugman who aren’t really scholars anymore, I mean the real intellectual heavyweights - the people whose reasoning is beyond reproach.

Next week I’ll take on Richard Florida and the metrics behind his Creative Class Index, specifically how he measures “innovation.” After that I’m gonna tee up famous Harvard economist Edward Glaeser and his views of where we should build rail, and finally I’ll take on reknowned urbanist Chris Nelson about where growth might actually occur on the Snake River Plain.

You don’t get to be a thought-leader by being wrong often and these guys are the best of the best. So, let’s have some fun, and create some conversation. If you find something of interest out there by one of the nation’s leading intellectuals, send it my way and we’ll see what kind of debate we can get going.