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Lists the authors who have contributed articles to the July 2004 issue of sociological journal "Feminist Economics." Affiliation with academic institutions; Authorship of books, periodicals and academic literature; Research interests of the authors.

The article reviews the journal of economic literature related to time discounting and time preference in the U.S. It defines intertemporal choices as decisions involving tradeoffs among costs and benefits occurring at different times. In this article, the authors review empirical research on intertemporal choice, and present an overview of recent theoretical formulations. In section 2, the authors review the perspectives on intertemporal choice of John Rae and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economists, and describe how these early perspectives interpreted intertemporal choice as the joint product of many conflicting psychological motives. In section 3, they examine the various assumptions underlying the discounted-utility (DU) model. The remaining sections reviews DU anomalies, the numerous alternative theoretical models and reviews attempts to estimate discount rates.

Abstract--This study finds that a strong bibliometric regularity exists in the publication pattern in the economics literature; the number of authors publishing n papers is approximately 1/n[sup c] of those publishing one paper. The economics literature conforms very well to the model with c = 1.84 if data are taken from a large collection of journals. When applied to individual journals, the result shows that values of c range from 2.04 to 3.11. This paper also reports the degree of author concentration among leading economics journals. Finally, this study finds that the graduates of three graduate programs account for more than half of the top 100 authors, indicating strong institutional dominance in the production of the most prolific authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the contributing authors and institutions to the journal "American Economic Review" (AER). Historical documentation of contributors to economic journals provides an objective measure of productivity. This benchmarks is useful in the evaluation and determination of standards of scholarly output and could be useful in the development of expectations of the future productivity of new doctorates. Data for this study were taken from the first 80 volumes of the AER. Included in the data are all articles and notes appearing from the first issue in 1911 through the end of 1990. Among the 2,946 persons having authored or co-authored articles in the AER over the 80-year period, only 838 have appeared more than once, 360 more than twice, and 185 more than three times. Of the 2,275 persons appearing over the most recent 40-year period, only 596 have appeared more than once, 234 more than twice, and 105 more than three times. Comparing the 80-year and 40-year period lists shows only slight shuffling among the top 20 contributing institutions. This suggests that the same small group of elite academic institutions has consistently led the discipline through research published in the leading journal of the profession.