Textbooks
Baumol has written several textbooks in economics, including an introductory textbook with Alan Blinder. His economics textbook on operations research was internationally used:
In the 1960s and 1970s, nearly every economics department offered a course in operations research methods in economics, and the usual textbook used was Economic Theory and Operations Analysis by W. J. Baumol. An entire generation of economics students was familiar with this book ....
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