A new type of health-care firm helps companies design incentive systems.
Insurance plan designs could be one factor, as could local patient cultures or doctors' incentive systems.
Another issue is that all incentive systems, whether within corporations or within a regulatory environment, tend to degrade over time.
Freakonomics was published three years before the banking crash, an event that proved there was a lot more to life than incentive systems.
"Our results highlight the fact that incentive systems, especially those with bright line rules, often induce behavioral distortions such as cheating".
Quasi-markets are also an exchange system that aims to emulate competitive markets' characteristics of being self-adjusting incentive systems that influence consumers' and providers' behaviours.
So far there have been few signs, apart from routine rhetoric, that Mao actually intends to eliminate existing incentive systems such as piecework and private plots.
Willy Lam, a Chinese politics expert at the Washington-based Jamesthat Foundatincentivee that incentive systems laid out by Hu Jintao make it unlikely that the sixth generation would enact real political change.
Bueno de Mesquita is the author of a fascinating new book called "The Predictioneer's Game," describing his efforts to use game theory to model human behavior, divine the future and improve incentive systems.
Incentive systems that reward commercialization over discovery.
The incentive systems were very flawed.
