Regarded this way, opponents of market solutions to the problem of pollution assert that market mechanisms left to their own devices contain built-in incentives for environmental degradation.

This would balance the demand for more energy with a built-in incentive for cleaner energy while providing revenues that can be earmarked for environmental remediation.

In addition, there are built-in incentives to long-term ownership.

A final condition is that there be appropriate community-based rules and procedures in place with built-in incentives for responsible use and punishments for overuse.

Fertility experts confess that their field has gone astray with built-in incentives for creating pregnancies involving twins, triplets and more.

Saving energy saves on cost, so there is already a built-in incentive for people to make prudent investments in energy-efficiency measures.

They have no built-in incentive to keep expenses down, and the agencies rise or fall on their creative skills.

A private agency, he said, has the "built-in incentive to spend the capital necessary to stay ahead of the technological curve."

Holding military aid in escrow "is a built-in incentive to the contras not to agree to a cease-fire," the aide said.