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I had never heard of William Baumol before this course, but he is an economist who currently works for the Stern Business School and New York University.  William has done extensive research in the following areas: economic growth, entrepreneurship and innovation, industrial organization, antitrust economics and regulation, and economics of the arts.  Concerning these areas and others, William has written 40 books and over 500 articles. 

Baumol was the author of a textbook used by nearly every economics department in the 60s and 70s to teach operations research methods in economics.   His primary area of focus is entrepreneurship, and he received the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research in 2003.   I’m actually not entirely sure how exactly his work would relate to the Economics of Organizations.