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This is one of the most mar­velous exam­ples of peo­ple respond­ing to incen­tives that I can think of. Sur­pris­ing and yet obvi­ous in ret­ro­spect.

Snitch­ing mar­kets in every­thing

The pris­on­ers in Atlanta’s hulk­ing down­town jail had a prob­lem. They want­ed to snitch for fed­er­al agents, but they didn’t know any­thing worth telling. Fel­low pris­on­er Mar­cus Watkins, a…