Textbooks

In the 1960s and 1970s, nearly every economics department offered a course in operations research methods in economics, and the usual textbook used was Economic theory and operatons analysis by W. J. Baumol An entire generation of economics students was familiar with this book ....

Professional and philanthropic interests

Major publications

• "Community Indifference", 1946, RES
• "A Community Indifference Map: A construction", 1949, RES.
• "A Formalization of Mr. Harrod's Model", 1949, EJ.
• "The Analogy between Producer and Consumer Equilibrium Analysis", with Helen Makower, 1950, Economica.
• Economic Dynamics, with R. Turvey, 1951.
• "The Transaction Demand for Cash: An inventory-theoretic approach", 1952, QJE.
• "The Classical Monetary Theory: The outcome of the discussion", with G.S. Becker, 1952, Economica.
• Welfare Economics and the Theory of the State, 1952.
• "Firms with Limited Money Capital", 1953, Kyklos.
• Economic Processes and Policies, with L.V. Chandler, 1954.
• "More on the Multiplier Effect of a Balanced Budget", with M.H. Peston, 1955, AER.
• "Acceleration without Magnification", 1956, AER.
• "Variety in Retailing", with E.A. Ide, 1956 Management Science.
• "Speculation, Profitability and Stability", 1957, REStat.
• "Activity Analysis in One Lesson", 1958, AER.
• "On the Theory of Oligopoly", 1958, Economica.
• "Topology of Second Order Linear Difference Equations with Constant Coefficients", 1958, Econometrica.
• "The Cardinal Utility which is Ordinal", 1958, EJ.
• Business Behavior, Value and Growth, 1959.
• "Integer Programming and Pricing", with R.E. Gomory, 1960, Econometrica.
• Economic Theory and Operations Analysis, 1961.
• "What Can Economic Theory Contribute to Managerial Economics?", 1961, AER.
• "Pitfalls in Contracyclical Policies: Some tools and results", 1961, REStat.
• "The Theory of Expansion of the Firm", 1962, AER.
• "Stocks, Flows and Monetary Theory", 1962, QJE.
• "An Expected Gain-Confidence Limit Criterion for Portfolio Selection", 1963, Management Science.
• "Rules of Thumb and Optimally Imperfect Decisions", with R. E. Quandt, 1964, American Economic Review, 54, p. 23-46
• "Decomposition, Pricing for Decentralization and External Economics", with T.Fabian, 1964, Management Science.
• "On the Performing Arts: the anatomy of their economic problems", with W.G. Bowen, 1965, AER.
• "Investment and Discount Rates Under Capital Rationing", with R.E.Quandt, 1965, EJ.
• "Informed Judgement, Rigorous Theory and Public Policy", 1965, Southern EJ.
• The Stock Market and Economic Efficiency, 1965.
• Performing Arts: the economic dilemma, 1966.
• "The Ricardo Effect in Point-Input, Point-Output Case", 1966, Essays in Mathematical Economics in Honor of Oskar Morgenstern.
• "Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: The anatomy of urban crisis", 1967, AER.
• "Calculation of Optimal Product and Retailer Characteristics", 1967, JPE.
• "The Firm's Optimal Debt-Equity Combination and the Cost of Capital", with B.G. Malkiel, 1967, QJE.
• "Error Produced by Linearization in Mathematical Programming", with R. Bushnell, 1967, Econometrica.
• "The Dual of Nonlinear Programming and its Economic Interpretation", with M.L.Balinski, 1968, RES.
• "Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory", 1968, May, American Economic Review
• "On the Social Rate of Discount", 1968, AER.
• "On the Discount Rate for Public Projects", 1969, Analysis and Evaluation of Public Expenditures.
• "Input Choices and Rate-of-Return Regulation: An overview of the discussion", with A.K.Klevorick, 1970, Bell JE.
• "Optimal Departures from Marginal Cost Pricing", with D.F. Bradford, 1970, AER.
• "The Economics of Athenian Drama", 1971, QJE.
• Environmental protection, International Spillovers and Trade, 1971.
• "On the Economics of the Theatre in Renaissance London" with Mary Oates, 1972, Swedish JE.
• "The Dynamics of Urban Problems and its Policy Implications", 1972, in Preston and Corry, editors, Essays in Honor of Lord Robbins.
• "Taxation and the Control of Externalities", 1972, AER.
• "Detrimental Externalities and Non-Convexity of the Production Set", with D.F. Bradford, 1972, Economica.
• "The Transformation of Values: What Marx 'Really' Meant", 1974, JEL.
• The Theory of Environmental Policy, with W.E.Oates, 1975.
• Economics, Environmental Policy and Quality of Life, with W.E.Oates and S.A. Batey Blackman 1979.
• Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure, with J.C. Panzar and R.D. Wilig, 1982
• "Contestable Markets: An Uprising in the Theory of Industry Structure", 1982, "AER".
• Microtheory: Applications and origins, 1986
• Superfairness: Application and theory, with D. Fischer, 1986
• "The Optimal Cash Balance Proposition: Maurice Allais' Priority", with J. Tobin, 1989, JEL
• Productivity and American Leadership: The long view, with S.A. Batey Blackman and E.N. Wolff, 1989.
• Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive and Destructive, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98(3), pp. 893–921, 1990
• Perfect Markets and Easy Virtue: Business ethics and the invisible hand, with S.A. Batey Blackman, 1992
• Entrepreneurship, Management and the Structure of Profit, 1993.
• The Free Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism, 2002.
• Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, co-authored with Robert Litan and Carl J. Schramm, 2007

Positions and Awards

• William Baumol was President of the American Economic Association
  American Economic Association
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• 1953 Fellow, Econometric Society
• 1957-58 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1960-70 Trustee, Rider College
• 1965 Honorary LL.D, Rider College (Trustee Emeritus)
• 1965-66 Ford Faculty Fellowship
• 1970 Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics
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• 1971 Honorary Doctorate, Stockholm School of Economics
• 1973 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Knox College
• 1973 Honorary Doctorate, University of Basel
• 1975 John R. Commons Award, Omicron Delta Epsilon
  Omicron Delta Epsilon
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• 1975 Townsend Harris Medal, Alumni Association of the City College of New York
• 1982 Distinguished Fellow, American Economic Association
• 1984 Distinguished Member, Economic Association of Puerto Rico
• 1986 Winner, Assoc. of American Publishers Award for Best Book in Business, Management and Economics, Superfairness: Applications and Theory
• 1987 Recipient, Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy
• 1988 Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics, Princeton University
• 1989 Winner, Assoc. of Am. Publishers Annual Awards for Excellence in Publishing, Honorable Mention in Social Sciences, Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View
• 1992 Recipient, First Senior Scholar in the Arts and Sciences Award, New York University
• 1996 Honorary Degree, University of Limburg, Maastricht, Holland
• 1996 Honorary Professorship, University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2003 Winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum (Entreprenörskapsforum), the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket), Stockholm, Sweden

External links

• Baumol home page
• IDEAS/RePEc
• Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive
• The discrimination of blacks has increased the number of jazz composers - An interview with William Baumol published in the Czech weekly Respekt and daily Blisty in 2003