The American Economic Review

Notable papers

• "A Theory of Production", by Paul Douglas and Charles Cobb.
• "The Use of Knowledge in Society", by F. A. Hayek
• "Economic Growth and Income Inequality", by Simon Kuznets.
• "The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment", by Franco Modigliani and Merton Miller.
• "A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas", by Robert Mundell.
• "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care", by Kenneth Arrow.
• "Capital Theory and Investment Behavior", by Dale W. Jorgenson
• "National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model", by Peter A. Diamond.
• "The Role of Monetary Policy", by Milton Friedman.
• "Migration, Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis", by John R. Harris and Michael Todaro.
• "Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency" and "Optimal Taxation and Public Production II: Tax Rules", by Peter A. Diamond and James Mirrlees.
• "Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization", by Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz.
• "Some International Evidence on Output-Inflation Tradeoffs", by Robert Lucas, Jr.
• "The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal’s Problem", by Stephen A. Ross.
• "The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society", by Anne Osborn Krueger
• "Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity", by Avinash Dixit and Joseph Stiglitz.
• "An Almost Ideal Demand System", by Angus Deaton and John Muellbauer.
• "On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets", by Sanford J. Grossman and Joseph E. Stiglitz.
• "Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade", by Paul Krugman.
• "Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to Be Justified by Subsequent Changes in Dividends?", by Robert J. Shiller.

Other notable papers

• "Colonial origins of comparative development", by Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson.
• "Growth in a Time of Debt", by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, published in the Papers and Proceedings issue
• by Katharine Coman. This was the first article that appeared in the journal, and was reprinted in 2011 due to its continuing significance.