A second unintended consequence is that VPNs could lead young people to worse areas of the internet than those they access without a VPN. This is probably unobservable; it’s dark.

Dual pricing in favour of execution-only customers could be an unintended consequence of the Financial Conduct Authority’s ...

Economists love to tell each other stories about perverse incentives. The “cobra effect” is a favourite. It describes an attempt by the British Raj to rid Delhi of its cobras by paying a bounty ...

The government is not yet ready to implement the Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO), despite having received proposals for its ...

The law of unintended consequences is both one of my favorite expressions and also probably overused, or at least misused. Because in the end, pretty much everything we do has consequence beyond ...