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Closely related ideas: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and
by happy-go-lucky 10y ago
Closely related ideas:
"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." - Campbell's law (1976)
"It is naive to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historical data, especially highly aggregated historical data." - Lucas critique (1976)
- drivers99 10y agoSounds like perverse incentives[1] in general. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
- happy-go-lucky 10y ago> In Hanoi, under French colonial rule, a program paying people a bounty for each rat tail handed in was intended to exterminate rats. Instead, it led to the farming of rats. LOL. Thank you.
- zardo 10y agohttp://e360.yale.edu/features/perverse_co2_payments_send_flood_of_money_to_china http://e360.yale.edu/features/perverse_co2_payments_send_flo... A modern incarnation: High incentives for the destruction of a harmful chemical stimulates it's production.
- morgante 10y agoFrance is hardly the only colonizer to experience the problems of perverse incentives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect