George Will

Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

Journalist

Fatih Birol

I believe there should be some financial incentives to make the right choice: to make them to buy the right car or not to buy a car but using public transport systems. I believe that these financial incentives are important.

Turkish Economist

Geoffrey Canada

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

American Activist

Erik Voorhees

I was very excited about a currency that was not controlled by a central government, that could be a free market currency. That was all the incentive I needed to dedicate my life to it.

American Businessman

Bill Gates

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

Grant Shapps

Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.

British Politician

Eric Maskin

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

American Economist

Herbert Hoover

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

American President

Hosea Ballou

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

American Clergyman

Joshua Kimmich

Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.

German Footballer

Incentives are used to push people towards achieving goals or improving performance.

Motivational Tool

Incentives can be for an individual or a group, like a team or company.

Personal or Group

Incentives often involve rewards rather than punishments.

Positive Reinforcement

Incentives can significantly shape how businesses or people make decisions.

Influences Decisions

Government incentives are used to guide companies and individuals towards certain choices.

Government Influence

In economics, incentives can refer to financial advantages given to stimulate specific activities.

Economic Benefits

Economic incentives are not always in the form of money; they can be tax reductions or other benefits.

Not Always Cash

 are expected to produce big results frequently. Important papers can advance careers, generate media interest, and secure essential funding, so there's slim motivation for researchers to challenge their own exciting results. In addition, little incentive exists to publish results unsupportive of the expected hypothesis.

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 We're the only ones who don't have the price set right. We don't have the industry set right. We don't have any incentive to go and resolve it across the U.S. Now where is the car industry on that? Very interesting. The car industry has been focused just on themselves. They basically looked at it and said, "Car 1.0

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 They had deployed all the right incentives, They paid professionals to write and edit thousands of articles. Well-compensated managers oversaw the whole thing to make sure it came in on budget and on time. A few years later, another encyclopedia got started. Different model, right?

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 It's a century since we made this really fateful decision to take addicts and punish them and make them suffer, because we believed that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop. And a few years ago, I was looking at some of the addicts in my life who I love,

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 They produced the tallest structures in the least amount of time. So there's deep lessons for us about the nature of incentives and success. So, you might Why would anyone actually spend time writing a marshmallow challenge? And the reason is, I help create

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 So likewise there can be agarwood plantation also. and the incentive comes if there is a trade, is the homestead garden owner he is able to sell his tree and get some money for his family

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 it's a powerful incentive for him to stay. There's another good reason Tadpoles need help to survive the tropical sun and its shrinking effect on their shallow pools.