Not only has the SEC yet to act, but the rules that the SEC proposed in 2011 to implement rating agency provisions of Dodd-Frank ironically wouldn't curtail many of the perverse activities that credit rating agencies engaged in during the years leading to the crisis.
This lexical switch is nevertheless significant insofar as it draws attention to the specifically disruptive ethos of embodied and perverse activities.
It held your attention, and when it was perverse, it was just perverse enough.
The Supreme Court's curbing the scope of a disability to an impairment that "substantially limits" major life activities could create perverse incentives for those suffering impairment.
3. Perverse Incentives to Keep Polluting Activities Legal -- The dual pressures to maintain offset profits and to keep the price of GHG offsets low will increase political pressure against the development of new regulations to limit polluting activities.
These perverse effects might include neglecting unrewarded activities, distorting reporting systems to inflate coverage and staff moving to areas with higher performance or more favourable conditions for meeting targets.
So it's particularly ironic, even perverse, that local authorities are curtailing an activity that helps charities to cope with the extra work those same councils are foisting upon them.
The Home Office, in its report on the crimes, regretted the activities of these burial societies and the perverse incentives they provided, but decided little could be done.* "The Black Widows of Liverpool", by Angela Brabin, History Today, October.
But Bacon liked it this way, preferring to regard his sexuality as perverse and punishable, relishing the criminal aura that clung to an activity forced underground.
Considerable resource is devoted to meeting multiple external demands, to the detriment of critical activities such as monitoring, anticipation and improvement 10. Beware of perverse incentives.
The vicarious pleasure of reading is, by the perverse principle of professions, one that is often banished from official discussion, but it remains the core activity.
