----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- I recall reading a paper written a number of years ago on citations, which had a table in which Samuelson's "The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure" was identified as the "most cited" paper in economics. I thought the table was in Art Diamond's 1989 "Most-Cited Papers ..." paper, but after corresponding with Diamond it seems I was wrong. And neither of us can find the reference. Does anyone recall such a table and article? (The usual suspects -- Google, JSTOR, Econ-Lit etc. provided no help using normal search criteria, so perhaps it was in an book or occasional paper?) E. Roy Weintraub ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]