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# Cato University 2017: *The Power of Incentives*

What is the impact of positive incentives? Free societies rely on the right incentives to foster peaceful cooperation and harmony. How can the wrong incentives, even imposed with the best of intentions, create truly perverse consequences?

**From [Cato University 2017: Summer Seminar on Political Economy](https://www.cato.org/cato-university/college-economics)**

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