The American Economic Review (AER) celebrates it 100th anniversary during 2011. During this century of contributions to economic thought, the elite group of most frequent contributing authors and academic institutions revealed in this study represent major participants in the unparalleled role that the AER has played in the world of scholarly published research. These contributing authors and academic institutions are most deserving of our admiration.
ArrowKenneth J., Douglas BernheimB., FeldsteinMartin S., McFaddenDaniel L., PoterbaJames M., and SolowRobert M.2011. “100 Years of the American Economic Review: The Top 20 Articles.” American Economic Review, 101(1): 1–8.
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BarnettAndy H., AultRichard W. and KasermanDavid L.1988. “The Rising Incidence of Co-authorship in Economics: Further Evidence.” The Review of Economics and Statistics, 70(3): 539–43.
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BaumolWilliam J.1982. “Contestable Markets: An Uprising in the Theory of Industry Structure.” American Economic Review, (72)1: 1–15.
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BernsteinMichael A.2008. “A Brief History of the American Economic Association.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 67(5), 1007–1023.
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DixitAvinash K. and StiglitzJoseph E.1977. “Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity.” American Economic Review, 67(3): 297–308.
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GrossmanSanford J. and StiglitzJoseph E.1980. “On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets.” American Economic Review, 70(3): 393–408.
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HeckJean Louis and ZaleskiPeter A.1991. “Trends in Economic-Journal Literature: 1969– 89.” Atlantic Economic Journal, 19(4): 27–32.
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MargoRobert A.2011. “The Economic History of the American Economic Review: A Century's Explosion of Economics Research.” American Economic Review, 101(1): 9–35.
SchwartzEli and MooreDonald A.1951. “The Distorting Effects of Direct Taxation: A ReEvaluation.” American Economic Review41(1), 139–148.
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SiegfriedJohn J.. 1998, “Who is a member of the AEA?” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 12(2): 211–222.
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SmithVernon. 1975. “The Primitive Hunter Culture, Pleistocene Extinction and the Rise of Agriculture,” Journal of Political Economy, 83(4): 727–756.
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StiglitzJoseph. 1969. “A Re-Examination of the Modigliani-Miller Theorem.” American Economic Review, 59(5): 784–93.
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StiglitzJoseph. 2004. “After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies,” American Economic Review, 94(3): 753–763
