The Cobra Effect, Part 2: Four Pests and a Disastrous Success
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The Economics of Cash for Cane Toads
The economics of cash for cane toads, a text book example of perver incentives. The idea which you would give welfare recipients ten cents for every living toad that they collected. There's another example cobra, where your request to suppress or remove something from the public eye only brings more attention to it. And while this, while this cane toad situation hasn't the level of cobras in india or rats in viit nom.
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