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Incentives - Why People Do What They Do

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Every blank traces the incentive story from a British bounty that backfired on dead cobras in colonial India through a 2008 Mexico City driving ban that also backfired, then closes on a bank whose sales quotas pushed employees toward 3.5 million accounts nobody asked for.

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