
Trade-offs
Rules or Incentives: Two Ways to Pursue the Same Aim
Rules or incentives assign responsibility differently. Compare who must act, who pays, how compliance is checked and…
Read the ideas behind public choices.
Compare the competing aims and consequences that often sit behind policy choices.

Rules or incentives assign responsibility differently. Compare who must act, who pays, how compliance is checked and…
A proposal is not the same as a decision, and a stated aim is not the whole story. We slow down the language and look at the choices that deserve attention.