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Economics and Finance
USA
2023

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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Economics and Finance D-index 94 Citations 95,830 536 World Ranking 83 National Ranking 68

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award

2003 - Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum

1987 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

1982 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association

1956 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Capitalism

His primary scientific interests are in Microeconomics, Industrial organization, Entrepreneurship, Externality and Productivity. His Microeconomics research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Average cost pricing, Pricing schedule, Economy and Total revenue. His study in Industrial organization is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Natural monopoly, Competition, Commerce, Free market and Profit.

His Entrepreneurship study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Rent-seeking, Public policy, Neoclassical economics, Process and Market economy. His Externality research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Control, Value theory, Public economics and Subsidy. As part of one scientific family, William J. Baumol deals mainly with the area of Productivity, narrowing it down to issues related to the Convergence, and often State, Econometrics and Economic geography.

His most cited work include:

  • Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure (3317 citations)
  • Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive (2947 citations)
  • Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Show (2348 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of investigation include Microeconomics, Entrepreneurship, Neoclassical economics, Public economics and Productivity. His Microeconomics study frequently links to adjacent areas such as Industrial organization. Industrial organization is closely attributed to Competitor analysis in his study.

William J. Baumol regularly links together related areas like Prosperity in his Entrepreneurship studies. His study in Externality extends to Public economics with its themes.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Microeconomics (15.47%)
  • Entrepreneurship (9.98%)
  • Neoclassical economics (9.98%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2005-2021)?

  • Entrepreneurship (9.98%)
  • Neoclassical economics (9.98%)
  • Prosperity (2.83%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Entrepreneurship, Neoclassical economics, Prosperity, Public economics and Capitalism. He combines subjects such as Positive economics, Colonialism, Islam, Welfare and Incentive with his study of Entrepreneurship. While the research belongs to areas of Prosperity, William J. Baumol spends his time largely on the problem of Economy, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Law and economics.

His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Broadband, Statement and Finance. His work deals with themes such as Production, Frontier, Property rights, Economic system and Market economy, which intersect with Capitalism. The study incorporates disciplines such as Economic growth, Conventional wisdom, Information technology, Bureaucracy and Externality in addition to Market economy.

Between 2005 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • On Taxation and the Control of Externalities (563 citations)
  • Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (471 citations)
  • The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship (231 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • World War II
  • Capitalism

William J. Baumol mostly deals with Entrepreneurship, Labour economics, Capitalism, Prosperity and Purchasing power. William J. Baumol has included themes like Pedagogy, Teaching method, Islam, Middle East and Politics in his Entrepreneurship study. His work carried out in the field of Labour economics brings together such families of science as Economic growth, Earnings, Capital and The arts.

His Capitalism study incorporates themes from Conventional wisdom, Information technology, Bureaucracy, Frontier and Economy. His studies in Economy integrate themes in fields like Event, Balance, Proposition, Injustice and Cash. His Purchasing power research includes themes of Productivity and Development economics.

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Best Publications

Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive

William J. Baumol.
Journal of Business Venturing (1996)

8873 Citations

Contestable Markets and the Theory of Industry Structure

William Jack Baumol;Elizabeth E Bailey;John C Panzar;Robert D Willig.
(1982)

8701 Citations

The Theory of Environmental Policy

William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates.
Cambridge Books (1988)

8279 Citations

Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare: What the Long-Run Data Show

William Jack Baumol.
The American Economic Review (1986)

5591 Citations

The theory of environmental policy

William J. Baumol;Wallace E. Oates.
(1975)

4781 Citations

The Theory of Environmental Policy

William Baumol;Wallace Oates.
Research Papers in Economics (1988)

3866 Citations

The Transactions Demand for Cash: An Inventory Theoretic Approach

William J. Baumol.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (1952)

3749 Citations

The Free-Market Innovation Machine

William J. Baumol.
(2014)

3670 Citations

Performing Arts, the Economic Dilemma: a Study of Problems Common to Theater, Opera, Music and Dance

William J. Baumol;William G. Bowen.
(1977)

3644 Citations

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

William J. Baumol.
(2002)

3456 Citations

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