In addition to perverse incentives, the current level of chief executive compensation creates opportunity costs.

What perverse incentives still remain to keep people in institutions?

Rather, the problem is that in each of these instances, programs at the state and local levels create perverse economic incentives.

We had a perverse incentive to make those tenants unhappy.

Otherwise, he said, consumers will continue to have perverse incentives to use the wrong sources of energy.

But the rate structure in that bid has perverse incentives, some participants say.

Today, as in 1996, many Democrats say the welfare law creates a perverse incentive.

Fortunately, these perverse incentives create opportunities for the rest of us.

I wonder if this has anything to do with perverse incentives?

So the perverse incentive is already back in place.