Unintended intentions?

Good Intentions and Unintended Evil

Relying on Adam Smith's concept of the "invisible hand," every economist can explain how markets react to individual economic power. Markets shape and reshape themselves to neutralize self-interested economic power by coaxing it into channels that serve the public good. But economists have devoted less attention to analyzing how markets systematically counteract coalitions of individuals' polit...

The Road to Unintended Consequences Is Paved With Good Intentions.

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Unintended Consequences.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF JOB REDESIGN Psychological contract violations and turnover intentions among full-time and reduced-hours MDs and LPNs

Researchers and practitioners have cited the advantage of such flexible work scheduling options as flex-time, compressed workweeks, job sharing, and reduced hours for employees. The assumption underlying these options has been that more flexible schedules allow employees to meet their family requirements and still work a sufficient number of hours to advance in their careers. In this paper we f...

Preempting Unintended Consequences

There is something called the “Law of Unintended Consequences.” Who enacted this law, who enforces it, and its exact scope are obscure. However, from time to time it manifests itself, most recently having made an appearance in some of the fallout from the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“the Act”). One unintended or, perhaps more accurately, unforeseen consequence of the Act h...