New book: A toolkit for anyone working to tackle wild problems
Wild problems are piling up in society. Many grandiose plans, projects and policies never come to fruition. A new book presents a toolkit for those tackling wild problems.
In Denmark, we pride ourselves on a well-ordered welfare society. We have solved most of the tame problems - built roads, built schools and treated citizens in hospitals. But today we're left with the wild problems that are harder to deal with. How do we strengthen public health, provide more employees for a tight labor market, lift the socially disadvantaged, improve learning for the weakest in primary schools, counteract the unhappiness of young people, reduce crime and tackle the climate crisis?
In Wild Problems, 23 researchers and practitioners look wild problems in the eye. They fill their toolbox with new data, instructive cases and practical tools to help us solve today's most pressing problems.
"We are facing the paradox of modern democracy: the problems are getting wilder while the solutions are getting tamer."
The book is edited by Sigge Winther Nielsen, Director of the think tank INVI - Institute for Wild Problems. He has published several books and scientific articles on modern politics and is the author of the critically acclaimed Entrepreneurial State (2021), which this book builds on.
The book Wild Problems - Toolkit for Politicians, Practitioners and Policy Entrepreneurs was published on October 30, 2023.
Contributors
Sigge Winther Nielsen
Dorte Bukdahl
Asmus Leth Olsen
Carsten Greve
Anne Tortzen
Carsten Strømbæk Pedersen
Christian Bason
Sara Gry Striegler
Thomas Gyldal Petersen
Claus Hjortdal
Gordon Ørskov Madsen
Anders Dybdal
Britt Wendelboe
Kristoffer Milling
Martin Østergaard Christensen
Trine Kiil Naldal
Ina Bøge Eskildsen
Oda Bagøien Hustad
Jacob Torfing
Alexander L.Q. Chen
Vibeke Normann Andersen
Anna Mollerup
Mads Leth Felsager Jakobsen
See the book's table of contents here.
The book will be published on October 30th by Nord Academic/ Gads Forlag.