William Baumol

Person · Open Library

Born

1922

Died

2017

Works

143

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1958-02-01

Active to

2020-03-24

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

   · 1996 · cited 62,963x

2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,835x

3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,556x

4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,947x

5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

   · 1958 · cited 28,681x

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Quotes

• “In order for a writer to produce something which is original and correct, it is not absolutely necessary that his predecessors have been wrong.”
• “There seems to be a general consensus among informed observers that genuine cases of predation are very rare birds.”
• “This book is... devoted to the study of economic policies to enhance the quality of life. Our willingness to embark on so considerable a subject only reflects our conviction that economists as a body have already made sufficient headway on these problems to make such an undertaking worthwhile.”
• “The price-tax conditions necessary to sustain the Pareto optimality of a competitive market solution under the assumed convexity conditions are tantamount to standard Pigovian rules, with neither taxes imposed upon, nor compensation paid to, the victims of externalities.”
• “We cannot simply rely on a program of pollution abatement in country A [the polluting country] for this would impose costs on A with no offsetting benefits to the polluting country. The OECD’s Polluter-Pays-Principle is thus inconsistent with our insistence on a Pareto improvement. Mutual gains to the countries necessarily require the victim country B to make some payments to A.”
• “The notion that our productivity problems reside in "the spirit of entrepreneurship" that waxes and wanes for unexplained reasons is a counsel of despair, for it gives no guidance on how to reawaken that spirit once it has lagged”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

William

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

New York City

Occupation

university teacher

Educated at

London School of Economics and Political Science

Employer

New York University

Languages spoken

Russian

Doctoral advisor

Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Field of work

labor market

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