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William J. Baumol

William Jack Baumol was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University, Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and professor emeritus at Princeton University. He was a prolific author of more than eighty books and several hundred journal articles. He is the namesake of the Baumol effect.

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Toward an evolutionary regime for spectrum governance

Toward an evolutionary regime for spectrum governance

The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

2012
The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship

The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship

2009
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity

2007

with Robert E. Litan and Prof. Carl J. Schramm

Downsizing in America

Downsizing in America

2003

with Alan S. Blinder and Edward N. Wolff

The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism

The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism

2002
Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests

Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests

2000

with Ralph E. Gomory

A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures

A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures

1998

with Lionel Robbins, Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels

Macroeconomics: Principles and Policy

Macroeconomics: Principles and Policy

1986
Macroeconomics: Principles and Policy Update

Macroeconomics: Principles and Policy Update

1986
Microeconomics: Principles and Policy

Microeconomics: Principles and Policy

1986

with Alan S. Blinder

Economics: Principles and Policy, Update 2010 Edition

Economics: Principles and Policy, Update 2010 Edition

1979

with Alan S. Blinder

Economics: Principles and Policy

Economics: Principles and Policy

1979

with Alan S. Blinder