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Remaking Economic Development – The markets and civics of continuous growth and prosperity
The lackluster U.S. economy is delivering a humbling lesson about economic development: Top-line growth doesn’t ensure bottom-line prosperity. The potential of economic development is to do what markets alone cannot do: influence growth through action and investments.
Leaders in cities and metro areas have an opportunity to remake economic development–to adopt a broader vision of economic development that can deliver continuous growth, prosperity, and inclusion in cities and metro areas. While some creative and committed leaders and organizations are embracing this version of economic development, it needs to be further scaled up.
This requires understanding the purpose of economic development and getting both the markets and civics right:
Amy Liu
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