Sentence examples for perverse consumption from inspiring English sources
Akers offers a sensible solution to curtail the perverse consumption incentive created by government lending, which is agnostic when colleges pile on the perks.
Not women, against whom he has unleashed a torrent of misogynistic statements for breastfeeding, menstruating, asserting their sexual autonomy, exercising their reproductive rights, or failing to meet his arbitrary standards of female beauty in other words, for daring to exist as whole human beings beyond his personal, perverse consumption.
In truth, the perverse reality of luxury consumption today is that so few people are complaining, and so many are clamoring for what Thomas refers to (a bit too frequently for my taste) as a piece of the "dream".
For a start, governments must scrap perverse subsidies that actually encourage the consumption of fossil fuels.
Consumption taxes create fewer perverse incentives because taxing what people buy doesn't affect their choices about work and investment.
Generous coverage, they contend, long gave Americans and their doctors a perverse incentive to indulge in wasteful consumption of expensive drugs and diagnostic tests.
It suggests that if we reverse the current price signals, we can also reverse the perverse incentives that drive joblessness and over consumption of energy and resources.
This paper investigates whether positive or perverse side effects dominate by exemplifying the impact of a water conservation campaign on electricity consumption.
In a perverse twist to the idea of a consumer economy, it turns out most of our consumption is taken up with buying pensions and insurance.
Furthermore, a race to the bottom has perverse effects: by lowering their optimal wage level, many countries are also depressing their levels of consumption.
