William C. Wheaton (1944–)

David Geltner () and Stephen Malpezzi
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David Geltner: Department of Urban Studies & Planning, MIT
Stephen Malpezzi: University of Wisconsin – Madison

Chapter 27 in The Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics, 2025, pp 535-555 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter provides a brief summary of the professional life and work of William C. Wheaton, who has for over 50 years been a faculty member of the MIT Economics Department and Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Wheaton is considered a “founding father” of the subbranch of economics known as real estate and urban economics. He has made foundational theoretical contributions to the field, and also highly influential empirical and practical contributions. His teaching and consulting contributions have helped to revolutionise the practice of the real estate investment industry worldwide. He developed the economics core of MIT’s pioneering master’s degree in real estate development, and served as an instrumental director of MIT’s Center for Real Estate. His highly influential textbook, with Denise DiPasquale, first published in 1996, Urban Economics and Real Estate Markets, systematised the knowledge corpus of real estate economics.

Keywords: Urban economics; Real estate economics; Housing economics; Real estate investment; Real estate finance; Urban studies; City planning; Spatial economics; Rental markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-77623-6_27

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