Econ Top 50 papers

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(1/3) By popular demand, I’ve decided to share a list of 50 of my favorite papers in Economics. I will post one daily in chronological order

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(2/3) This is not a list of the best, most influential or most cited papers in Economics. Any gross omissions reflect my bias or ignorance.

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(3/3) I won’t provide direct links to the papers (don’t want to end up in jail or deported), but scholar.google leaves you an epsilon away

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My #EconTop50: #1 Hotelling's 1929 beautifully flawed "Stability in competition" http://t.co/LdwCcyU7FZ

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My #EconTop50: #2 Viner's 1932 classic "Cost curves and supply curves" (featuring the obstinate draftsman Y.K. Wong) http://t.co/v5Ay6DAAe3

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My #EconTop50: #3 Coase's 1937 "The Nature of the Firm" (or, why do firms exist if the market works so well?) http://t.co/PUcsx52qKJ

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My #EconTop50: #4 Stolper-Samuelson's 1941 "Protection & Real Wages" ∃ no Pareto gains from trade w/o redistribution http://t.co/tUItfBvmzK

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My #EconTop50: #5 Hayek's 1945 "The Use of Knowledge in Society" (the beauty of price system when markets work well) http://t.co/U1GUADvP82

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My #EconTop50: #6 Arrow's 1950 "A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare" (social choice theory in trouble) http://t.co/KBpRVOHIni

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My #EconTop50: #7 Roy 1951 "Some thoughts on the distribution of earnings" (what is self-selection & why it matters) http://t.co/ZUFclobD6a

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My #EconTop50: #8 Shapley's 1953 remarkable "A value for n-person games" (see next tweets for an illustration) http://t.co/emwaGBR9nW

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My #EconTop50: #9 Solow's 1956 "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth" (a classic and beautifully written) http://t.co/x2n5yuOWfT

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My #EconTop50: #9bis Solow's 1957 "Technical change and the aggregate production function" ("Solow residual" paper) http://t.co/04XcAaKHqc

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My #EconTop50: #10 Samuelson's 1958 OLG paper "An exact consumption-loan model..." A genius sailing uncharted waters http://t.co/7monpYGy8h

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My #EconTop50: #11 Coase's 1960 "The Problem of Social Cost" (a profound, controversial critique of Pigouvian taxes) http://t.co/HxebQeM4ZM

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My #EconTop50: #12 Mundell's 1961 "A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas" (why some believe the Euro is doomed to fail) http://t.co/9b8FoQHArt

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My #EconTop50: #13 Stigler’s 1961 "The Economics of Information" (the birth of Search Theory) http://t.co/COCv710ynY

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My #EconTop50: #14 Becker 1962 "Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis" (birth of human capital theory) http://t.co/5QJ4ZTgnVS

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My #EconTop50: #15 Arrow’s 1963 “Welfare Economics of Medical Care” (the birth of Health Economics as a field) http://t.co/yd4JcGXUwV

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My #EconTop50: #16 Diamond's 1965 "National Debt in a Neoclassical Growth Model" (dynamic inefficiency & public debt) http://t.co/SRlDQgHTYQ

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My #EconTop50: #17 Akerlof's 1970 "The Market for Lemons" (a model of adverse selection with applications) http://t.co/HEy1y49S2u

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My #EconTop50: #18 Atkinson's 1970 "On the Measurement of Inequality" (utilitarian ranking of income distributions) http://t.co/njuachhFzW

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My #EconTop50: #19 Diamond and Mirrlees’ 1971 "Optimal Taxation and Public Production: Production Efficiency" http://t.co/0UFxK8vx2H

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My #EconTop50: #20 Lucas 1972 “Expectations and the Neutrality of Money” (rational expectations & the Phillips curve) http://t.co/IhdzM4tq7I

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My #EconTop50: #21 Spence’s 1973 “Job Market Signaling” (education can be valuable even when it teaches you nothing) http://t.co/FUumNakViv