Dialectical libertarianism: the unintended consequences of both ethics and incentives underlie mutual prosperity

The Pursuit of Efficiency and Its Unintended Consequences: Contract Withdrawals in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program

This article analyzes why the USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) experiences contract withdrawals. Among approved contracts, 17%withdrew one ormore conservation practices. After presenting a model of producers’ behavior, a logit model is used to examine thewithdrawalphenomenon.Withdrawals are linked toproducershaving an incentive to include low cost-share payments and practi...

Unintended Consequences.

The law of unintended consequences?

The Consequences of Unintended Childbearing

The Unintended Consequences of Checklists

Research suggests that checklists reduce errors in fields ranging from aviation to medicine. Checklists are effective in part because their content is not randomly selected from available information but strongly sampled from information experts believe is critical. This sampling process supports the inference that unlisted information is unlikely to be important. However, this predicts that ch...