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William Baumol

1922 - 2017

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William Jack Baumol (February 26, 1922 – May 4, 2017) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Baumol has received more than 248,075 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). William Baumol is the 217th most popular economist (down from 209th in 2019), the 3,738th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,547th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, William Baumol ranks 217 out of 414. Before him are Robert Torrens, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Ferdinando Galiani, Grigory Yavlinsky, Peter Senge, and Mancur Olson. After him are E. F. Schumacher, Giovanni Arrighi, Chester Barnard, Adam Müller, Martín de Azpilcueta, and Nassau William Senior.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, William Baumol ranks 190. Before him are Bogdan Bogdanović, Jackie Cooper, Francisco Aramburu, Sinan Hasani, Patrick Magee, and Michael Ansara. After him are Adil Çarçani, Carlo Lizzani, Eugene Stoner, Alexander Kazhdan, Gilberto Agustoni, and Vsevolod Bobrov. Among people deceased in 2017, William Baumol ranks 197. Before him are Michael Bond, Bengt Gustavsson, Richard Anderson, Naim Süleymanoğlu, David Cassidy, and Gretel Bergmann. After him are Jimmy Snuka, Michael Ballhaus, Gilberto Agustoni, Laura Biagiotti, Ricardo Piglia, and Leo Kinnunen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Baumol ranks 3,738 out of 20,380. Before him are Thomas E. Dewey (1902), Dan Sullivan (1964), Budd Boetticher (1916), Roy E. Disney (1930), James Rollins (1961), and Elizabeth Banks (1974). After him are Philip Showalter Hench (1896), William Graham Sumner (1840), Peggy Lipton (1946), Tuesday Weld (1943), William Baldwin (1963), and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, William Baumol ranks 74. Before him are Paul Volcker (1927), Hyman Minsky (1919), Henry Hazlitt (1894), Alvin E. Roth (1951), Peter Senge (1947), and Mancur Olson (1932). After him are Chester Barnard (1886), David D. Friedman (1945), Paul Milgrom (1948), Thomas Sowell (1930), Philip H. Dybvig (1955), and Ellen Swallow Richards (1842).

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