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What Is A Wicked Problem

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Economics investigates the decisions of people, firms, countries, and any other ‘economic agent’- it is the study of human behavior and choices. Although economics encroaches into many disciplines and addresses a wide variety of problems ranging from stimulating economic growth to finding evidence of cheating in sumo-wrestling, they cannot pretend that they can understand human behavior and can simply solve all the problems of the world alone. An active area of economic research that takes an interdisciplinary approach concentrates on the black-white achievement gap. There is a significant gap between the educational achievement of black students and white students . This is very much a wicked problem- no one really knows what to do about

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