Fixing Our Incentive Structures

Creating structures that support the behaviors we want is more effective than simply hoping for change.

Introduction

One of the things we’ve learned over the past eight years is that a lot of what we’ve taken for granted about the way our world works is based on norms, not laws—un-forceable and unenforceable expectations of good behavior. We operate on the honor code far more often than many of us realized.

That’s not likely to change. There may be places w…