Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 1973, two design theorists at the University of California, Berkeley, coined the term “wicked problem” to refer to ...

The breakdown of AC is an example of what Nash says is known as "the wicked problem." He credits sociologist Robert Merton with identifying consequences of complex system change as intended, ...

The term wicked problem has become a standard way for policy analysts to describe a social issue whose solution is inherently elusive. Wicked problems have many causal factors, complex ...