The American Economic Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics
In 2011, the AER published a list of the top 20 articles of its first hundred years. The selection was made by a committee consisted of Kenneth J. Arrow, B. Douglas Bernheim, Martin S. Feldstein, Daniel L. McFadden, James M. Poterba, and Robert M. Solow.
“We decided against trying to define formally the criteria for inclusion: they surely comprise sheer intellectual quality, influence on the ideas and practices of economists, and general significance or breadth; but it would be fruitless to try to specify the marginal rates of substitution among these and other qualities,” said the publication. “We were looking for 20 admirable and important articles.”
Alphabetically (by name of author)
1972. “Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization.”
American Economic Review, 62(5): 777–95.
1963. “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care.”
American Economic Review, 53(5): 941–73.
1928. “A Theory of Production.”
American Economic Review, 18(1): 139–65.
1980. “An Almost Ideal Demand System.”
American Economic Review, 70(3): 312–26.
1965. “National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model.”
American Economic Review, 55(5): 1126–50.
1971. “Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency.”
American Economic Review, 61(1): 8–27.
1971. “Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules.”
American Economic Review, 61(3): 261–78.
1977. “Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity.”
American Economic Review, 67(3): 297–308.
1968. “The Role of Monetary Policy.”
American Economic Review, 58(1): 1–17.
1980. “On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets.”
American Economic Review, 70(3): 393–408.
1970. “Migration, Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis.”
American Economic Review, 60(1): 126–42.
1945. “The Use of Knowledge in Society.”
American Economic Review, 35(4): 519–30.
1963. “Capital Theory and Investment Behavior.”
American Economic Review, 53(2): 247–59.
1974. “The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society.”
American Economic Review, 64(3): 291–303.
1980. “Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade.”
American Economic Review, 70(5): 950–59.
1955. “Economic Growth and Income Inequality.”
American Economic Review, 45(1): 1–28.
1973. “Some International Evidence on Output-Inflation Tradeoffs.”
American Economic Review, 63(3): 326–34.
1958. “The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment.”
American Economic Review, 48(3): 261–97.
1961. “A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas.”
American Economic Review, 51(4): 657–65.
1973. “The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal’s Problem.”
American Economic Review, 63(2): 134–39.
1981. “Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to Be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Dividends?”
American Economic Review, 71(3): 421–36.
Chronologically (by date of publication)
1928. “A Theory of Production.”
1945. “The Use of Knowledge in Society.”
1955. “Economic Growth and Income Inequality.”
1958. “The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment.”
1961. “A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas.”
1963. “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care.”
1963. “Capital Theory and Investment Behavior.”
1965. “National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model.”
1968. “The Role of Monetary Policy.”
1970. “Migration, Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis.”
1971. “Optimal Taxation and Public Production.”
Diamond, Peter A
“Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency.”
American Economic Review, 61(1): 8–27.
“Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules.”
American Economic Review, 61(3): 261–78.
1972. “Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization.”
1973. “Some International Evidence on Output-Inflation Tradeoffs.”
1973. “The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal’s Problem.”
1974. “The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society.”
1977. “Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity.”
1980. “An Almost Ideal Demand System.”
1980. “On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets.”
1980. “Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade.”
1981. “Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to Be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Dividends?”
Source: American Economic Association
Last checked on: 13 January 2016
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