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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The principal-agent problem in health care asserts that providers, being the imperfect agents of patients, will act to maximize their profits ...

The cost of college textbooks has risen 812 percent since 1978. That’s more than triple the inflation rate over the same period of time, according to The Atlantic. So what gives? Textbook costs are a ...