There is nothing perverse or mean-spirited about this.
As the Press Association reports, Rennie said the SNP's "perverse logic" meant that toddlers were being deprived of free nursery care and students denied a place at college.
Mr Bush's energy bill was so influenced by lobbyists that John McCain dubbed it the "No Lobbyist Left Behind" act.These perverse incentives mean that governments can frequently spend lots of money without producing any improvement in public services.
The Research Excellence Framework (Ref) is usually held up as Exhibit A in this argument, and the National Student Survey as Exhibit B. Managers are too reliant on metrics to boost funding and reputation, the argument goes, and perverse incentives mean that not enough time is given either to teaching or to research.
Mistakes have a perverse quality which means that as well as making them, we keep staring at them once they've happened, like a cat that has knocked something over and broken it.
Rosa Prince, the online political editor for the Telegraph, was an interesting choice for Jeremy Corbyn's biographer, and when I say "interesting", of course I mean "perverse".
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's medical director, said the old targets had come with "perverse incentives", and meant that people who had already waited longer than 18 weeks were often ignored.
Give everyone, rich and poor, enough to live on and at a stroke remove the perverse incentives of means-testing, where people lose 63p in every pound they earn in work.
They're primarily due to the (incredibly complicated) energy market that wasn't designed or isn't being run to cope with a higher proportion of renewables, and is throwing up perverse incentives that mean South Australia can have a blackout while generators are sitting idle.
Controlling the epidemic of Perverse Incentives will mean giving the patient a bigger economic stake in efficient health care.
