It is amazing to me how many people have truly bought into the notion that studying stories is "nice to have" rather than a necessity

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"But an incentive problem arises when the health system celebrates a larger flow of illness-related encounters while quietly hoping that prevention will reduce the need for those encounters. If we prevent ten avoidable admissions, who receives the financial benefit? "

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Very interesting take! There is a pretty established literature on informational commons and the related Governing Knowledge Commons that you might find interesting knowledge-commons.net

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If you haven't read it, I think you will definitely enjoy the book "How Economics Shapes Science," which links information's non-rivalrous/non-excludable nature with science's priority system of discovery: (until now,) science has incentivized information sharing by crediting the first reporter.

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If nothing else, two fun facts you might not already know: (1) The Tragedy of The Commons is a specific, essentially wrong paper by a guy who turns out to suck, and (2) exploitative scholarly publishing is basically traceable to one guy, Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine.

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