The Architecture of Health Care Markets: Economic Sociology and Antitrust Law
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expertise of a group as a grounds for self-governance. The new literature on professions also notes that they employ universities in their struggle for governance, focus their control projects on the state, and constantly try to invade other groups’ professional territory.” Id. at 104. Once anchored in, change is difficult to effectuate. “One can see that, once in existence, the organization of labor markets is difficult to change. Workers, employers, governments, and those who run the education system have a stake in the current structure.” Id. at 102–03. Tellingly, Arrow also stressed the important economic role played by medical education. See Arrow, supra, note ___ 60 , at 952–53; see also Richard A. Cooper and Linda H. Aiken, Human Inputs: The Health Care Workforce and Medical Markets, 26 J. HEALTH POL., POL’Y & L. 925 (2001). AHCM-HAMMER (8-7-07)1.DOCAHCM-HAMMER (8-7-07)DOCUMENT28/28/20078/23/200708/15/078/7/2007 3:42 PM1:22:07 PM11:09 AM9:44:42 PM12:5
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