Christian Sarkar and Philip Kotler explore why the world's most urgent problems remain unsolved, emphasizing their interconnected and self-perpetuating nature. They argue that traditional problem-solving methods fail against "wicked problems"—complex, systemic issues with no definitive solutions - not so much because they can't be solved, but rather because the existing power structure doesn't want to solve them.

Systemic Failure, Not Broken Systems: Political and economic systems are not f...