Martin Shubik

Martin Shubik (born March 24, 1926) is an American economist, who is   Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. He was educated at the University of Toronto and Princeton University. On the Yale faculty since 1963, Shubik specializes in strategic analysis, the study of financial institutions, the economics of corporate competition, and  game theory. He has written many books and essays, including Political Economy, Oligopoly and Experimental Games, 1999, and The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions, 2004.

In 2010, Shubik was recognized by the American Economic Association as a Distinguished Fellow for "major contributions to a variety of fields in economics." The associated AEA citation discusses papers (co)authored by Shubik on computational and game-theoretical representations of for example:
 * a two-sided market in which a product that comes in large, indivisible units (houses, cars, etc.) is exchanged for money
 * the phenomenon of escalation among competitors [such that] actual behavior may deviate from the purely rational mode of play embodied in Nash equilibria
 * money play[ing] a crucial strategic role [as a] central paradigm in monetary analysis [with the generality of the Walrasian model]
 * the shift in warfare brought about by the increasing permeability of national borders.

Shubik is the middle of three children. His siblings are Philippe Shubik, the cancer researcher and founder of the Toxicology Forum, and Irene Shubik, a former BBC producer.

Selected publications
Chronological order below except for Shapley coauthorship (1954-77) and thematic continuity (1959, 1980). Press + for small-font links.


 * 1953. "A Comparison of Treatments of a Duopoly Situation," wirh J. P. Mayberry and J. F. Nash, Econometrica, 21(1), pp. 141-154.
 * 1954. "A Method for Evaluating the Distribution of Power in a Committee System," with Lloyd S. Shapley, American Political Science Review, 48(3), pp. 787-792. Reprinted in A. Roth, ed., 1988. The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley. Cambridge, ch. 3, 41-48.
 * 1969. "On Market Games," with Lloyd S. Shapley, Journal of Economic Theory, 1(1), pp.  9-25.
 * 1969. "On the Core of an Economic System with Externalities," with Lloyd S. Shapley, American Economic Review, 59(4, Part 1), pp. 678-684.
 * 1971. "The Assignment Game I: The Core," with Lloyd S. Shapley, International Journal of Game Theory, 1(1), pp. 111-130.
 * 1977. "Trade Using One Commodity as a Means of Payment," with Lloyd S. Shapley, Journal of Political Economy, 85(5), pp. 937-968
 * 1959. Strategy and Market Structure: Competition, Oligopoly, and the Theory of Games, Wiley. Description and review extract.
 * 1980. Market Structure and Behavior, with Richard Levitan, Harvard University Press.  Review extract.
 * 1960. "Game Theory as an Approach to the Firm," American Economic Review, 50(2), pp. 556-559.
 * 1962. "Incentives, Decentralized Control, the Assignment of Joint Costs and Internal Pricing," Management Science,  8(3), pp. 325-343
 * 1970. "A Curmudgeon's Guide to Microeconomics," Journal of Economic Literature, 8(2 ), pp. 405-434.
 * 1978. "Game Theory: Economic Applications," in W. Kruskal and J.M. Tanur, ed., International Encyclopedia of Statistics, v. 2, pp. 372-78.
 * 1981. "Game Theory Models and Methods in Political Economy," in K. J. Arrow and M. D. Intriligator, Handbook of Mathematical Economics, v. 1, pp. 285-330. Elsevier.
 * Game Theory in the Social Sciences, v. 1 & 2, MIT Press:
 * 1985. Concepts and Solutions. Description.
 * 1987. A Game-Theoretic Approach to Political Economy. MIT Press. Description and review extract.


 * 1987. "A Critique of Rational Expectations Equilibrium," with Pradeep Dubey and John Geanakoplos, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 16(2), pp. 105-137.
 * 1990. "A Game Theoretic Approach to the Theory of Money and Financial Institutions," ch. 5, in B. M. Friedman and & F. H. Hahn, ed. Handbook of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, v. 1, pp. 171-219.
 * 1993. "Worldwide Nuclear Coalition Games: A Valuation of Strategic Offensive and Defensive Forces," Operations Research, with Jerome Bracken, 41(4), pp. 655-668.