misreward

present singular third person misrewards · participle present misrewarding · participle past misrewarded · past misrewarded

1. To reward inappropriately.

   The isoquant levels within the production space have been reduced because capital and labor are misincentivized, misrewarded, and therefore misallocated and undersupplied.

   2015, Steven Rosefielde, Comparative Economic Systems

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   Subjects who were intentionally misrewarded by an involved agent (Other) made the largest reallocations; this presumably reflects the presence of reciprocity motivation which exacerbated the effects of equity motivation.

   1972, Dissertation Abstracts International, page 418

   Letter addressed to Earl of Chesterfield, signed "P.P.S." Includes incidental mention of SJ among other writers whose "apostacy from Jacobitism to Georgism . . . have been misrewarded . . with pensions instead of the pillory."

   1976, Helen Louise McGuffie, Samuel Johnson in the British Press, 1749-1784, page 88