Richard Florida is a professor and director of cities at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. He is a distinguished visiting fellow at NYU's Shack Institute of Real Estate and the co-founder and editor-at-large of The Atlantic's CityLab. (CNN) Amazon's short list of contenders for its much ballyhooed HQ2 reads like a who's who of the most economically vibrant and dynamic cities in North America. Richard FloridaBut, there's one part of Amazon's HQ2 competition that is deeply disturbing -- pitting city against city in a wasteful and economically unproductive bidding war for tax and other incentives. So, which city is going to have the moral obligation to do what's right?

Source: CNN January 20, 2018 23:37 UTC