The Kobraeffekt describes the phenomenon that measures, which are met, in order to solve a certain problem can also intensify these. It became by the book of the same name refuge filter RTS admits, which represented therein the consequences of wrong incentives for the economy.

The designation decreases/goes back to a historical event in India, when a British governor of a Kobraplage stop wanted to order, by suspending a head money on each hunted copy. Apparently the concept functioned first well: Ever more dead queues were delivered. However to profit their number not reduced, since the population turned into to breed and kill Kobras, in order further from the premium to.

When the head money was again waived after a certain period, the breeders released the animals, since they had no more use for her - thus had itself owing to (more indirectly) national promotion the number of the Kobras multiplied.

The Kobraeffekt inspired those Hamburg Punkband Slime in the year 1989 to a Song of the same name, which with the indifference of the mass media whether their responsibility and its influence on the population argues.

Literature

• Refuge Siebert: The Kobra effect, German publishing house, ISBN 3421056781

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