Yes but AFAIK we don't do it. Incentive structures can be treated as causal structures if you simplify by saying that incentives "cause" people to act a certain

Yes but AFAIK we don't do it. Incentive structures can be treated as causal structures if you simplify by saying that incentives "cause" people to act a certain way. The disciplines involved in fixing or improving causal structures are systems theory and cybernetics. But these tools are extremely under utilised.