Incentives - Why People Do What They Do

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A bounty on every dead cobra breeds more cobras first, then Hoy No Circula, the driving ban Mexico City tried in 1989, and the Wells Fargo scandal follow, sales targets that pushed employees toward 3.5 million fake accounts, before four design rules fix a backfired incentive.

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