"Bonuses are awarded *a posteriori,* based on objective information and according to a plan which has been established or agreed upon beforehand and articulated in a totally unequivocal fashion. Bonuses do not guide action, since they are awarded in a rigid and objective manner after the fact. Most of all, the granting of bonuses involves an interpretive judgment about events, a judgment which is only meaningful if made entrepreneurially, but not if it arises from the commands of a central planning agency (which lacks the information necessary to award bonuses in anything but an arbitrary manner), or if bonuses have been established beforehand for all cases and depend on the meeting of certain, more or less measurable criteria." - JesΓΊs Huerta de Soto, ***Socialism, Economic Calculation, and Entrepreneurship*** (2010) p. 241. Translated by Melinda Stroup.
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