The Post-Standard (Syracuse, New York)

July 2, 2006 Sunday 
FINAL EDITION

POSTSCRIPT

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A10

....Blog watch: Upstate edition

..NYCO and Simon of the Living in Dryden blog weigh in on a debate at the Cato Institute's Cato Unbound blog on the question of how to save the depopulating Upstate 

...Robin Hanson, an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, asks: " Is Upstate worth saving?" 

...Let Upstate empty and fill it with the "Creative Class," Hanson writes. "The market seems to be saying that people are worth more if they move out of upstate New York, and I have no particular reason to question that judgement," Hanson writes 

...Other contributors to the conversation include "Creative Class" author Richard Florida and Ed Leamer, a professor of economics and management at UCLA Anderson, who grew up in Vestal ...