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Concept: incentives

An incentive is any factor (financial or non-financial) that enables or motivates a particular course of action, or counts as a reason for preferring one choice to the alternatives.


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The Andrea Doria

  • incentives
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The Baby Shower

  • cost-benefit analysis
  • economics of crime
  • incentives
  • thinking at the margin
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The Bottle Deposit

  • arbitrage
  • fixed costs
  • incentives
  • variable costs
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The Calzone

  • altruism
  • incentives
  • utility
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The Engagement

  • externality
  • incentives
  • property rights
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The Finale

  • changes in payoffs
  • game theory
  • incentives
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The Ticket

  • incentives
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The Trip (Part I)

  • incentives
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The Trip (Part II)

  • incentives
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The Wife

  • incentives
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