The cost disease: Why computers get cheaper and health care doesn't

The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-249

  Baumol, William J ^a,b   de Ferranti, David ^c   Malach, Monte ^d,e   Pablos Méndez, Ariel ^f   Tabish, Hilary ^g   Wu, Lilian Gomory ^h  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f US Agency for International Development   (United States)

^g ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^h IBM   (United States)

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