And by the way, this is different from No Child Left Behind, because what that did was it gave the states the wrong incentives.

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But getting the incentives wrong can lead to welfare dependency for generations of the poor.

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We had a financial crisis because the incentives were wrong.

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Second, that everybody cheats if they have the right incentives and the wrong oversight, so managers must ensure that punishment is sure and swift.

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All of the incentives are pointed in the wrong direction.

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There are a variety of reasons as to this and some of them are benign, such as raised costs now because more people want new procedures, but administrative costs, paperwork, perverse incentives, all kinds of structural things are wrong with the system that have to be fixed.

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As it stands now, though, all the incentives in employer-provided plans run in exactly the wrong direction.

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R. 8 definitely changed the incentives for work, savings, and investment, but all in the wrong direction.

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Often people overlook the limits of incentives because of the lure of the tax benefit and find themselves in the wrong investment ending up losing far more than they would have gained with the incentive or missing out on opportunities they never considered.

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It can go wrong: prizes, such as that for honest government in Africa, may be too small, given other incentives.

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