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Mathias Kifmann, Comment on ‘Paying People to Act in Their Own Interests: Incentives versus Rationalisation in Public Health’ by Jonathan Wolff, Public Health Ethics, Volume 8, Issue 1, April 2015, Pages 31–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/phe/phu038
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This article comments on Jonathan Wolff’s contribution ‘Paying People to Act in Their Own Interests: Incentives versus Rationalisation in Public Health’ from an economics perspective. The role of incentives in public health is discussed from both a neoclassical and behavioural economics viewpoint. Jonathan Wolff contributes to this discussion by outlining a new mechanism. He demonstrates that incentives may matter in a different way than has been considered so far. In particular, Wolff shows that we should not view individuals in isolation when we consider the effects of incentives.