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If the country does well, they get paid; Congress will be incented to serve the citizens and fight for programs that help their constituents; but they know that excess spending will directly harm their electorate.

Politics 2010

If the country does well, they get paid; Congress will be incented to serve the citizens and fight for programs that help their constituents; but they know that excess spending will directly harm their electorate.

Accountability 2010

If that doesn't make sense, imagine this: a health care system where doctors are encouraged (and incented, and rewarded) for helping patients become more healthy than they are.

The same, but not exactly (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

MR. ROGERS: Investing in venture-backed companies or in companies where there is a significant private cost share is a much better way to deploy governmental capital to accelerate the rate of innovation, because then you have a set of managers who are incented to get this right, as opposed to, I just gave a 100% grant to somebody to go do something or the government just goes and does the research.

They're Writing the Checks 2011

This is a major task, but if an employee has the impression that their work is valuable and the organization expresses its interest in the financial success of the employee, then the employee is incented to work in two ways.

Employees as Owners, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

A controlling elite, on the other hand, is incented to continue to control, and has no incentives to change just because things aren't working.

Elitism or Populism: Pick Your Poison, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The important thing is that the top kids in terms of ability are getting a good-enough education and are incented by our economic system to continue our technological and entreprenuerial success when they join the work force.

Test Scores and Economic Performance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

So if you are a developer, quit trying to trick customers into downloading your app via incented downloads.

John Backus: Serendipity, Not Search, Finds Top Apps John Backus 2012

So they are incented to meet my needs - produce something that I value more than my money.

The Tick Petition, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

If the tenure system incented professors to teach rather than write papers for one another to read the system could add more value.

Politics and Academia, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009