How to Scale a Problem

John liszt is an economist at the university of chicago. He was inspired to think about scaling problems by a lot of research that he and other academics produce often fails to translate into the widespread gains they envisioned. The first secret is use incentives that can scale. This one uses a pair of incentives that most of us would like to avoid. We spent most of the first part of this episode talking about failures, so let's start getting into solutions.