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“Cost disease” books examine why certain essential services become steadily more expensive, often outpacing inflation and income growth, despite limited productivity gains—a phenomenon economists call Baumol’s cost disease. The category explores how wage competition raises costs in labor‑intensive sectors like healthcare, education, childcare, eldercare, and the performing arts, and how factors such as regulation, financing models, administrative bloat, and market structure can amplify or mitigate those pressures. Works range from economic theory and cross-country comparisons to investigative journalism and policy proposals, assessing impacts on households and public budgets, distributional and equity effects, and measurement debates about quality and productivity. These titles focus on causes, consequences, and practical remedies, including process redesign, technology and automation, incentive and governance reforms, and alternative delivery models.

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