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There's one argument floating around out there about the soaring inequality of the modern day and the manner in which CEO pay at public companies has risen so much. That argument being that as ...

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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 ...