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I am extremely grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and the C.V. Starr Center for their generous support of this work, and to Ms. S.A.B. Blackman for her invaluable help in the research.
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Baumol, W.J. Health care, education and the cost disease: A looming crisis for public choice. Public Choice 77, 17–28 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01049216
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