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Cost Disease

TagLast edit: Jan 5, 2021, 3:58 PM by Yoav Ravid

Cost Disease or Baumol’s cost disease is a name for the rise of salaries in jobs that have experienced no or low increase of labor productivity [1]. Some use the term generally to refer to rising costs in general [2].

Often the questions being asked in Cost Disease discussion are why the cost healthcare and education have increased many, many times over.

External Posts:
Book Review: Why Are The Prices So D*mn High? - Scott Alexander

Book Re­view: Why Are The Prices So Damn High?

sarahconstantinJun 28, 2019, 7:40 PM
61 points
7 comments8 min readLW link
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Con­sid­er­a­tions On Cost Disease

Scott AlexanderFeb 10, 2017, 4:33 AM
49 points
7 comments22 min readLW link

High­lights From The Com­ments On Cost Disease

Scott AlexanderFeb 17, 2017, 7:28 AM
10 points
2 comments25 min readLW link

Ma­jor Up­date on Cost Disease

Max foobarJun 5, 2019, 7:10 PM
42 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­count­ing For Col­lege Costs

johnswentworthApr 1, 2022, 5:28 PM
363 points
41 comments7 min readLW link

Monopoly: A Man­i­festo and Fact Post

sarahconstantinMay 31, 2018, 6:40 PM
33 points
65 comments5 min readLW link
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Cry­on­ics costs: given es­ti­mates are low

gwernNov 14, 2011, 5:07 PM
45 points
27 comments4 min readLW link