Economic development — jobs, income, and
community prosperity — is a continuing challenge to modern society. To meet
this challenge, economic developers must use imagination and common sense,
coupled with the tools of public and private finance, politics, planning,
micro- and macro-economics, engineering, and real estate. In short, the art of
economic development must be supported by the science of research. And only one
journal —Economic Development Quarterly — effectively bridges the gap between
academics and practitioners while linking the various economic development
communities.