Ward S. Bowman

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 762 citations indexed

About

Ward S. Bowman is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Law and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ward S. Bowman has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 762 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 3 papers in Law and 2 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Ward S. Bowman's work include Merger and Competition Analysis (5 papers), Intellectual Property Law (3 papers) and Intellectual Property and Patents (2 papers). Ward S. Bowman is often cited by papers focused on Merger and Competition Analysis (5 papers), Intellectual Property Law (3 papers) and Intellectual Property and Patents (2 papers). Ward S. Bowman collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ward S. Bowman's co-authors include Andrew Shonfield, Milton Friedman, Robert H. Bork, Oliver E. Williamson, Ronald H. Coase, George J. Stigler, Kenneth W. Dam and Carl Kaysen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, The Journal of Law and Economics and Journal of Industrial Economics.

In The Last Decade

Ward S. Bowman

17 papers receiving 609 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Capitalism and Freedom

1963 170 citations Ward S. Bowman, Milton Friedman The Yale Law Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ward S. Bowman United States	9	332	248	194	118	112	17	762
J N Marshall United Kingdom	19	517 1.6×	155 0.6×	149 0.8×	205 1.7×	163 1.5×	36	994
Thomas J. DiLorenzo United States	16	511 1.5×	127 0.5×	256 1.3×	124 1.1×	46 0.4×	57	805
Derek F. Channon United Kingdom	12	158 0.5×	270 1.1×	38 0.2×	82 0.7×	49 0.4×	28	674
Stanisław Wellisz United States	14	772 2.3×	143 0.6×	98 0.5×	150 1.3×	60 0.5×	34	1.1k
H. D. Dickinson United Kingdom	7	409 1.2×	252 1.0×	34 0.2×	144 1.2×	144 1.3×	13	848
Richard O’Brien Italy	6	209 0.6×	108 0.4×	160 0.8×	154 1.3×	237 2.1×	11	680
Steve Machin United Kingdom	8	659 2.0×	309 1.2×	55 0.3×	81 0.7×	61 0.5×	13	986
Thomas Palay United States	6	255 0.8×	249 1.0×	64 0.3×	83 0.7×	20 0.2×	12	678
Richard G. Harris Canada	15	404 1.2×	173 0.7×	95 0.5×	59 0.5×	96 0.9×	37	696
Robert F. Freeland United States	8	140 0.4×	164 0.7×	66 0.3×	156 1.3×	38 0.3×	17	545

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ward S. Bowman

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All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1977). The Incentive to Invent in Competitive as Contrasted to Monopolistic Industries. The Journal of Law and Economics. 20(1). 227–228. 5 indexed citations

2.

Williamson, Oliver E. & Ward S. Bowman. (1974). Patent and Antitrust Law: A Legal and Economic Appraisal. The Yale Law Journal. 83(3). 647–647. 3 indexed citations

3.

Bowman, Ward S.. (1973). Patent and Antitrust Law: A Legal and Economic Appraisal. Stanford Law Review. 25(4). 648–648. 19 indexed citations

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Coase, Ronald H., Kenneth W. Dam, Ward S. Bowman, & George J. Stigler. (1969). Report of the Task Force on Productivity and Competition. 2. 13. 3 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1967). Restraint of Trade by the Supreme Court: The Utah Pie Case. The Yale Law Journal. 77(1). 70–70. 8 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S. & Andrew Shonfield. (1967). Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Harvard Law Review. 80(6). 1375–1375. 279 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1966). The New Haven, a Passenger Railroad for Nonriders. The Journal of Law and Economics. 9. 49–59. 2 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1965). Contrasts in Antitrust Theory: II. Columbia Law Review. 65(3). 417–417. 3 indexed citations

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Bork, Robert H. & Ward S. Bowman. (1965). The Crisis in Antitrust. Columbia Law Review. 65(3). 363–363. 24 indexed citations

10.

Bowman, Ward S. & Milton Friedman. (1963). Capitalism and Freedom. The Yale Law Journal. 72(7). 1469–1469. 170 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1957). Tying Arrangements and the Leverage Problem. The Yale Law Journal. 67(1). 19–19. 134 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1956). Business Concentration and Price Policy.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 51(273). 184–184. 70 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S. & Carl Kaysen. (1956). United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation, An Economic Analysis of an Antitrust Case. The Yale Law Journal. 66(2). 303–303. 2 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1956). The Report of the Attorney General's National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws. Journal of Industrial Economics. 4(2). 81–81. 3 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1955). The Prerequisites and Effects of Resale Price Maintenance. The University of Chicago Law Review. 22(4). 825–825. 23 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1953). Toward Less Monopoly. University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 101(5). 577–577. 4 indexed citations

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Bowman, Ward S.. (1952). Resale Price Maintenance-A Monopoly Problem. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 25(3). 141–141. 10 indexed citations

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