Incentives Matter: Incentive Design Matters More

This entry was posted in Listener, Social Policy, Statistics on 22nd March 2008 by Brian Easton.

Listener: 22 March, 2008. Keywords: Social Policy; Statistics; “Incentives matter” is a routine part of economists’ thinking. Tax a commodity, its price goes up and there is an incentive to reduce consumption. Reduce the tax, the price goes down and the incentive goes the other way. But many real-life circumstances are more complex, and the…
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Buzz Words V Business

This entry was posted in Governance, Health, Listener on 8th March 2008 by Brian Easton.

A report finds our health system is too top-down. Listener: 8 March, 2008. Keywords: Governance; Health; “There does not seem to be the understanding that several actions – for example, writing a policy or reminding staff about a concern – are actually very weak actions. There is also little indication that general…
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