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(1922-2017) Economist, author. William J. Baumol was born in the South Bronx, New York, and died in New York City.

Full Name

William J. Baumol

Locations

Bronx

Author's Timeline


1922

BIRTH

William Jack Baumol was born in the South Bronx, New York, on February 22, 1922.

1942

OTHER

Professor Baumol graduated from City College of New York in Manhattan, New York, in 1942.

1951

LITWORK

Economic Dynamics
Macmillan

Nonfiction.

1952

LITWORK

Welfare Economics and the Theory of the State
The London School of Economics and Political Science/ Longmans

Nonfiction.

1961

LITWORK

Economic Theory and Operations Analysis
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Second Edition, 1965

Textbook.

1971

OTHER

Professor Baumol taught at New York University from 1971 until 2014.

1975

LITWORK

The Theory of Environmental Policy
Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition, 1988
0521322243 / 978-0521322249
Nonfiction written with W. E. Oates.

1986

LITWORK

Superfairness: Application and Theory
Mit Press
0262022346 / 978-0262022347
Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

Entrepreneurship, Management, and the Structure of Payoffs
The MIT Press
0262023601 / 978-0262023603
Nonfiction.

2002

LITWORK

The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism
Princeton University Press
0691096155 / 978-0691096155
Nonfiction.

2007

LITWORK

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
Yale University Press
0300109415 / 978-0300109412
Nonfiction co-authored with Robert Litan and Carl J. Schramm.

2010

LITWORK

The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship
Princeton University Press
0691145849 / 978-0691145846
Nonfiction.

2012

LITWORK

The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't
Yale University Press
0300179286 / 978-0300179286
Nonfiction.

2017

DEATH

William J. Baumol died at his home in New York City on May 4, 2017.

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