It’s a common hypothesis that a given supposed organisational failure is due to poor incentives, yes. That is well-known. There are also other common hypotheses. I don’t think it’s useful to merely state one particular well-known hypothesis for why organisations fail in a discussion about a specific case like this. It doesn’t add anything.
It’s like saying “maybe it’s due to self-serving signalling” [edited for clarity: that would be another hypothesis]. Self-serving signalling may indeed explain many phenomena, but it’s not very useful to state that as an explanation of a specific phenomenon without giving any evidence pertaining to that specific phenomenon.
Furthermore, under a reasonable interpretation saying that a supposed failure is due to poor incentives entails that the individuals who acted on those incentives did so for self-interested reasons (naïve homo economicus is of course associated with self-interested behaviour). Thus it means that they did what served their own interests rather than the common good. I wouldn’t make such sensitive conjectures unless I had evidence that that is indeed true of the case at hand.
It’s a common hypothesis that a given supposed organisational failure is due to poor incentives, yes. That is well-known. There are also other common hypotheses. I don’t think it’s useful to merely state one particular well-known hypothesis for why organisations fail in a discussion about a specific case like this. It doesn’t add anything.
It’s like saying “maybe it’s due to self-serving signalling” [edited for clarity: that would be another hypothesis]. Self-serving signalling may indeed explain many phenomena, but it’s not very useful to state that as an explanation of a specific phenomenon without giving any evidence pertaining to that specific phenomenon.
Furthermore, under a reasonable interpretation saying that a supposed failure is due to poor incentives entails that the individuals who acted on those incentives did so for self-interested reasons (naïve homo economicus is of course associated with self-interested behaviour). Thus it means that they did what served their own interests rather than the common good. I wouldn’t make such sensitive conjectures unless I had evidence that that is indeed true of the case at hand.