Incentives
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In this case, too-big-to-fail financial institutions had perverse
incentives
: if they gambled and succeeded, they walked off with the profits; if they lost, the taxpayer would pay.
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Diplomacy needs to be well resourced, sustained, and apply the right mix of
incentives
and pressures on leaders and followers.
We can create these local markets and
incentives
for recycled materials to be used as raw materials for manufacturing.
In addition, we are struggling to find some way to create
incentives
for people in the financial services industry that will have them more interested in serving the long-term interests even of their own companies, rather than securing short-term profits.
What we desperately need, beyond, or along with, better rules and reasonably smart incentives, is we need virtue.
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