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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 234,668 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). William Baumol is the 211th most popular economist (down from 197th in 2019), the 3,557th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,478th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, William Baumol ranks 211 out of 315. Before him are Michel Camdessus, Peter Senge, Albert O. Hirschman, Arthur Melvin Okun, Abba P. Lerner, and Clément Juglar. After him are Gustav Cassel, Stanley Fischer, Eugen Slutsky, Thomas Sowell, Martín de Azpilcueta, and Roy Harrod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, William Baumol ranks 179. Before him are John Christopher, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Gilberto Agustoni, Alan Perlis, Otl Aicher, and Egon Bahr. After him are Hal Clement, Joan Copeland, Michael Ansara, Georges Cottier, Lennart Nilsson, and Władysław Bartoszewski. Among people deceased in 2017, William Baumol ranks 178. Before him are Albert Zafy, Georgy Grechko, Laura Biagiotti, Gilberto Agustoni, Stephen Paddock, and Baldwin Lonsdale. After him are Mary Tyler Moore, Kim Jong-hyun, Charles Robert Jenkins, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Lennart Nilsson, and Dritëro Agolli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Baumol ranks 3,557 out of 18,182. Before him are Grote Reber (1911), Bernie Mac (1957), Sarah Michelle Gellar (1977), Frederick William Franz (1893), Kateri Tekakwitha (1656), and Jean Peters (1926). After him are Ahmad Jamal (1930), Christopher Meloni (1961), Marsha Hunt (1917), Lou Henry Hoover (1874), Nicole Scherzinger (1978), and Billie Eilish (2001).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, William Baumol ranks 72. Before him are Dennis Meadows (1942), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Mancur Olson (1932), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Peter Senge (1947), and Arthur Melvin Okun (1928). After him are Thomas Sowell (1930), David D. Friedman (1945), Benjamin Tucker (1854), Henry Hazlitt (1894), George Shultz (1920), and Eric Maskin (1950).

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