Wicked Problems and Applied Economics

By S. Batie. 2008

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Transaction costs, collective action and adaptation in managing complex social–ecological systems (2013, background): “…as a ‘mess’ because no single governance enterprise has 6 sole jurisdictional responsibility, the different enterprises involved cannot agree on the problem since their divergent interests lead them to frame it differently, and each attempt to identify a solution changes the problem (Batie 2008).”
Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (2018, methodology): “In particular, we propose three key features (or dimensions) that distinguish wicked problems: (1) knowledge uncertainty, (2) value conflict among multiple stakeholders and (3) dynamic complexity, in that they have no unique and final solution(s) or outcome(s) (Kreuter et al. 2004; Batie 2008).”
Transaction costs and environmental policy design (2013, background): “Deeper levels of institutional analysis are especially relevant for the design of solutions to wicked problems (Batie, 2008).”
The Emerging Concept of Responsible Innovation. Three Reasons Why It Is Questionable and Calls for a Radical Transformation of the Concept of Innovation (2015, background): “…is no definitive formulation of a wicked problem, that solutions to wicked problems are not true-or-false but better or worse and, that they have no stopping rule, i.e. the problem-solver does not know when an acceptable solution of the problem is found etc. (Ritter and Webber 1973; Batie 2008).”