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    Incentives Are for Losers (with Adam Mastroianni)

    EconTalk · Sep 14, 2026 · 1 h 05 min
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    Incentives matter, sure. But what should you do when following the incentives means quietly participating in something wrong? Psychologist Adam Mastroianni argues that obeying bad incentives--shading a headline for clicks, keeping the found wallet because no one's watching--is "loser behavior," a surrender of the hardest and most human task: figuring out right from wrong for yourself. In this…

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