Goodhart's Law states that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" Goodhart's law applied to political power gives us a corollary: Any useful concept eventually becomes a cudgel for authority.
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works both ways. corruption through incentive once it becomes explicit director of policy + laundering of political directives through “studies” and “committees to investigate”
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Yep; when you radically change the incentives for an institution the failure doesn't happen immediately because until the higher ups retire there's institutional memory of the old incentive structure.
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