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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.
You need to have incentives.
But the problem with relying on rules and incentives is that they demoralize professional activity, and they demoralize professional activity in two senses.
That is to say, it creates people who only do things for incentives.
These are people who, being forced to operate in a system that demands rule-following and creates incentives, find away around the rules, find a way to subvert the rules.
Rules and incentives don't tell you how to be a good friend, how to be a good parent, how to be a good spouse, or how to be a good doctor or a good lawyer or a good teacher.
Rules and incentives are no substitutes for wisdom.
Now this is not a problem of resources; this is a problem of incentives.
But with the type of cuts we're talking about, it will be far, far harder to get these incentives for excellence, or to move over to use technology in the new way.
And it's led to a view of human nature that we're rational individuals who respond in straightforward ways to incentives, and it's led to ways of seeing the world where people try to use the assumptions of physics to measure how human behavior is.
If economics, if the market, drives security, and if people make trade-offs based on the feeling of security, then the smart thing for companies to do for the economic incentives is to make people feel secure.
They just have the incentives that get them to be blinded to reality and give us advice that is inherently biased.
The most difficult thing, of course, is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives.
So, if we can do this, this kind of change in values, then we will indeed start to see individual scientists rewarded for doing these things; there will be incentives to do them.
That can't keep going on, because economic incentives and disincentives are very powerful.
We need to invest in real solutions: incentives for farmers, precision agriculture, new crop varieties, drip irrigation, gray water recycling, better tillage practices, smarter diets.
It's because some family planning programs resorted to unfortunate incentives and coercive policies.
And it actually took being a journalist to understand all these incentives.
You know, economists like to say, there are no bad people, there are just bad incentives.
And their first recommendation of how to fix this problem, because it is a problem, because it sends us all down blind alleys, their first recommendation of how to fix this problem is to make it easier to publish negative results in science, and to change the incentives so that scientists are encouraged to post more of their negative results in public.
The problem with the African continent and the problem with the aid industry is that it has distorted the structure of incentives facing the governments in Africa.
I want to use the example of my own country, called Uganda, and the kind of structure of incentives that aid has brought there.
When you try to solve really complex social problems, the right thing to do is most of the time to create the incentives.
Now, 95 percent of the guys that I was locked up with had been drug dealers on the outside, but when they talked about what they did, they talked about it in a different jargon, but the business concepts that they talked about weren't unlike those that you'd learn in a first year MBA class at Wharton: promotional incentives, you never charge a first-time user, focus-grouping new product launches, territorial expansion.
Local communities need to be more involved in establishing the criteria for recruiting participants in clinical trials, as well as the incentives for participation.
So the management of Electrolux took our pile, our list of incentives, and they went outside the room for 17 minutes, and they came back in and they said, "Wow, this is the most generous any community has ever been to try to keep jobs here.
But this is a problem of just incentives, just incentives.
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