His central proposal would ban government contracts with privately-owned prisons, aiming to curb an "over-incentive to arrest, jail and detain, in order to keep prison beds full".
But with elections looming in India and Indonesia next year and the Fed now signaling that the times of easy cash are not quite over, the incentive for more action could be limited, analysts fear.
G.M. said its decision assumed a successful completion of negotiations over incentives from state and local officials.
But he obtained internal e-mail messages among Chrysler executives, in which he was described as "too litigious" after a dispute with the company over incentives for advertising.
There can also be conflicts over incentives in such collaborations as well, since a hardware manufacturer may prefer a smaller market share but higher margins while a software company wants greater user adoption to generate traffic.
The attention to sanctions over incentives is due to disapproval of incentives (as being too "soft"), the general lack of attention to the importance of varying degrees of support for short-term goal achievement, and the notion that people should not be rewarded for "doing what they should do".
She said many companies prioritize transportation options and the location of their labor force over incentives like those the city and state offers.
However, as currently proposed, the agreement's preference for penalties over incentives is liable to lead to acrimony, legal quagmires, and a reduction of the already low level of cooperation between governments and systemically important operators.
Just this week, the natural gas industry's lobbyists told The Hill, a D.C.-based newspaper, that they were ready to fight with the coal industry over incentives in the Senate bill.
