Geme Theory Materials by Professor Martin J. Osborne (and Professor Ariel Rubinstein)
Professor Martin J. Osborne is an economic theorist with interests in game theory and political economy. He retired from a position at the Department of Economics of the University of Toronto at the end of June 2022.
Books
- Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein, Bargaining and markets (Academic Press, 1990) [full text freely available]
- Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein, A course in game theory (MIT Press, 1994; Chinese translation published by China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2000) [full text freely available]
- Martin J. Osborne, An introduction to game theory (Oxford University Press, August 2003; Chinese and Greek translations are available) [six chapters freely available]
- Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein, Models in microeconomic theory (Open Book Publishers, 2020) [full text freely available]
- NEW Martin J. Osborne, Models in political economy (in progress) [full text freely available]
tutorials
- Mathematical methods for economic theory (major revision 2016)
- The theory of the firm and industry equilibrium
teaching
- Mathematical Methods for Economic Theory (undergraduate). (Taught for the last time in Fall 2021.)
- Microeconomic Theory II, unit 1 (graduate). (Taught for the last time in Fall 2018.)
- Applied Game Theory (undergraduate). (Taught for the last time in Fall 2017.)
- Political Economy (graduate). (Taught for the last time in Winter 2017.)
- Advanced Economic Theory — Micro [game theory] (undergraduate). (Taught for the last time in Fall 2008.)
résumé
- Curriculum vitae (pdf)
LaTeX
- LaTeX style files for games (strategic and extensive), exams, figures, and more
- Review of BaKoMa TeX Word
- Using BibTeX: a short guide
- BibTeX style file for Theoretical Economics
- text2bib: a tool for converting references to BibTeX format
- Some common (La)TeX errors, and how to avoid them
- Notes on page makeup using TeX
contact
martin.j.osborneongmail
etc.
- Open Access explained
- Theoretical Economics (open-access journal in economic theory)
- Open Book Publishers, UCL Press (publishers of academic books that are freely available in electronic form)
- RePEc (database of working papers, journal articles, and books in economics)
- GAMBIT (programs for analyzing games)
- Review of Sylvia Nasar's book "A beautiful mind"
- Remembrance of things past
- PoET: Prices and ratings of economics textbooks (no longer updated)
- Economic activity along Bloor Street, Toronto, since 1995
- "It's always good to get abstract when it comes to economics", Andy Warhol, The philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and back again), p. 183
- Graphic of Toronto's average weather (pdf)
- Winner of the 2006 Academia Award for the best satirical video related to economics produced at an Ivy League school: Every breath you take. Runner-up: Welcome to Harvard. (The status of the latter as satire is apparently in dispute.)
- History of world records in swimming (allows you to create graphs of record times, and to compare record histories for males and females, and for short and long course events).
The content above has been sourced from the personal website of Professor Martin J. Osborne.
I highly recommend accessing this personal website for additional high-quality learning resources.
Please note that I do not own the copyright to the content presented here.
P.S. Professors Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein are two of my favorite Econ/GT professors. I have two posters of "Coffee places where you can think" from Professor Rubinstein in my office.
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