Our future prosperity depends on developing new, collective habits of complex thinking together. At the Purdue Agile Strategy Lab, we have introduced the concept of a "civic economy" to explain the importance of civility to our future prosperity. We have found audiences remarkably receptive to this new thinking.
Our civic economy supports our market economy. It represents investments that are publicly valuable but not privately profitable. These investments -- often collaborative and undertaken by countless non-profit organizations, foundations, governments, and universities -- support our shared well-being. They represent the collective responsibility that makes our individual freedom possible.
