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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Hunter’s Corner
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Our safety system is giving off toxic fumes

Economics could be the answer to dysfunctional regulation.

Tim Hunter Fri, 03 Sep 2021

You don’t have to be an economist to know that incentives matter – it’s a basic element in human behaviour.

However, economists can help us understand how much incentives matter, or how to design a process so that individual incentives align with a desired outcome, such as, say, workplace

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