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A more damning charge is that market incentives change behavior in socially damaging ways.
But market incentives may also have the opposite effect, improving motivation or other valuable traits.
Finally, despite legitimate concerns about “teaching to the test,” there is evidence that properly designed teacher evaluations can improve incentives and performance in public and private schools alike.
The pretext was that taxes, welfare payments, and other government interventions impair incentives and distort competition, reducing economic growth for society as a whole.
If the world is too complex and unpredictable for either markets or governments to achieve social objectives, then new systems of checks and balances must be designed so that political decision-making can constrain economic incentives and vice versa.
These should include carbon prices, which create incentives for reducing emissions; regulations mandating more energy-efficient buildings, consumer appliances, and vehicles; and subsidies to nascent technologies that have not yet achieved the economies of scale required for low-cost production.
Carbon prices and appropriate regulation can provide the required incentives, but competition among profit-motivated firms is crucial to ensuring that decarbonization is achieved at the lowest possible cost.
While it might be true that Europeans are too sensitive to environmental concerns, incentives also play a role.
A seldom-mentioned reason is that shale-gas development in the US has benefited from important tax incentives – a model that Europe has no reason to emulate.
The combination of private incentives and effective education is a key reason for China’s rapid growth.
Instead of offering concessions, which could create long-term instability in the eurozone, Europe’s leaders must remain committed to creating strong incentives for all member states to maintain prudent fiscal policies capable of reducing public-debt ratios and restoring fiscal buffers against asymmetric shocks to the currency union.
A tax’s effectiveness depends on how it is designed, and how consumers and the food industry respond to the incentives it creates.
To understand why it took politics so long to catch up to economic realities, we should look at incentives and ideology.
With respect to incentives, politicians have not been given a good enough reason to address unequal distribution patterns.
As a result, there is a growing disconnect between big money and political incentives; and while money is still a part of the political process, influence itself no longer belongs exclusively to corporations and wealthy individuals.
Fishery resources are over-exploited; animal husbandry suffers a similar lack of rigorous management; and the country spends a fortune buying the meat and milk that it could easily produce for itself if farmers had the proper incentives.
No amount of messaging and incentives will work if the borders are not secure or immigration rules are not being applied effectively.
Officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the plan entailed government spending of more than $800 billion on infrastructure, education, health, and energy, tax incentives, and various social programs.
Sometimes a consensus is innocuous enough, as when you hear economists argue that one ignores the role of incentives at one’s peril.
The oversight was not due to the lack of models of bubbles, asymmetric information, distorted incentives, or bank runs.
And we will put in place tax incentives aimed at encouraging companies to use their cash for capital investment, research and investment, and wage increases.
A review of industrial concentration is warranted, as is a major government effort to foster SME growth in new ventures by offering incentives, ensuring access to capital, and lowering barriers to market entry.
Castro believes in giving farm workers greater incentives.
The United States relies on generous tax incentives to encourage personal retirement savings, but these incentives are poorly targeted and yield limited returns.
More than 80% of the value of these incentives goes to the top 20% of taxpayers, who earn more than $100,000 a year.
Moreover, while the incentives cost the US Treasury nearly $100 billion annually, they induce little new saving; instead, they cause high-income taxpayers to shift their savings to tax-advantaged assets – a major reason why President Barack Obama proposes capping the tax deduction for retirement saving.
Taxpayers are more responsive to matching incentives than they are to tax incentives, because the former are easier to understand and more transparent.
Indeed, recent research indicates that automatic enrollment is much more effective than tax incentives for increasing retirement saving.
In the US, making saving easier and more financially rewarding through better-targeted tax incentives, matching government contributions, automatic IRAs, and state-wide retirement plans would help boost retirement savings, especially for low- and middle-income households.
Such incentives, in turn, could provide more levers to ensure respect for human rights.
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