Perverse Incentives, Unintended Consequences, and How You Make Policy: The Cobra Effect, Horseshoe Theory, & Barbera Streisand
Game Theory
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The Unintended Consequences of Barbara Streisand Suffering
Barbara Streisand sued Kenneth Adelman to get a photo of her mansion removed from the California Coastal Records Project. She didn't want people to know that she had like a mansion. This is essentially the first receipt of all time. The original file was filed in December 2003, we're talking about it 20 years later. Now she tried to suppress this information and now it's never going to go away probably ever. It taught us about how human behavior is going to work. We have datum. Now 450,000 in a month, like we know that they care this much more when there's a lawsuit and you're famous. But as this extends, and now it has to
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