Martin Shubik

Martin Shubik (March 24, 1926 – August 22, 2018)[1][2] was an American economist, who was Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University.

Martin Shubik
Born	(1926-03-24)March 24, 1926 New York City
Died	August 22, 2018(2018-08-22) (aged 92) Branford, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Julie Shubik (nee Kahn)
Institution	Yale University
Field	Economics
School or tradition	Game theory
Alma mater	Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Oskar Morgenstern
Awards	American Economic Association Distinguished Fellow, 2010
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Website	http://faculty.som.yale.edu/martinshubik/

Work in economics

Before beginning his work in academia, Shubik studied at the University of Toronto and Princeton University. On the Yale faculty since 1963, Shubik specialized in strategic analysis, the study of financial institutions, the economics of corporate competition, and game theory. A collection of Shubik's papers, with an emphasis on his work with game theory, is housed at the Rubenstein Library at Duke University.[3] He wrote 21 books 331 articles,[4] including Political Economy, Oligopoly and Experimental Games, 1999,[5] and The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions, 2004.[6]

In 2010, Shubik was recognized by the American Economic Association as a Distinguished Fellow for "major contributions to a variety of fields in economics."[7][8] 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[9]
• the phenomenon of escalation among competitors [such that] actual behavior may deviate from the purely rational mode of play embodied in Nash equilibria[10]
• money play[ing] a crucial strategic role [as a] central paradigm in monetary analysis [with the generality of the Walrasian model][11]
• the shift in warfare brought about by the increasing permeability of national borders.[8][12]

He was elected to the 2018 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[13]

Personal life

Shubik was one of three children. His siblings were Philippe Shubik, the cancer researcher and founder of the Toxicology Forum, and Irene Shubik, a British television drama producer.

See also

• Shapley–Shubik power index

Notes

1. Prof. Martin Shubik, Influential Game Theory Scholar, Dies
2. Roberts, Sam (31 August 2018). "Martin Shubik, Economist and Game Theory Pioneer, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
3. "Martin Shubik Papers, 1947-2007 and undated (bulk 1960-1993)". Rubenstein Library, Duke University. Archived from the original on 2014-07-31. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
4. "Martin Shubik CV" (PDF). Yale Economics Department. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
5. Martin Shubik, 1999. Political Economy, Oligopoly And Experimental Games: The Selected Essays of Martin Shubik, 2 v., Edward Elgar. Description Archived 2012-05-24 at the Wayback Machine and several chapter-preview links: Part I Political Economy; Part II Oligopoly; Part III Gaming; Part IV Game Theory and Operations Research.
6. Martin Shubik, 2004. The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions, MIT Press:

   v. 1. Description Archived 2006-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, contents Archived 2006-09-20 at the Wayback Machine, and chapter-preview links

   v. 2. Description Archived 2006-09-16 at the Wayback Machine and contents Archived 2006-09-20 at the Wayback Machine.

   v. 3: Description Archived 2011-11-02 at the Wayback Machine.

7. Elhanan Helpman and David M. Kreps were fellow honorees in 2010.
8. American Economic Association, 2010. Distinguished Fellows, "Martin Shubik Archived 2012-01-05 at the Wayback Machine".
9. Lloyd S. Shapley and Martin Shubik, 1971. "The Assignment Game I: The Core," International Journal of Game Theory, 1(1), pp. 111-130.
10. Martin Shubik, 1971. "The Dollar Auction Game: A Paradox in Noncooperative Behavior and Escalation," Journal of Conflict Resolution, 15(1), pp. 109-111.
11. • Martin Shubik, 1973. "Commodity Money, Oligopoly, Credit, and Bankruptcy in a General Equilibrium Model," Economic Inquiry, 11(1), pp. 24–38.
       • Martin Shubik and Charles Wilson, 1977. "The Optimal Bankruptcy Rule in a Trading Economy Using Fiat Money," Journal of Economics, 37(3-4), pp. 337-354.
       • Lloyd S. Shapley and Martin Shubik, 1977. "Trade Using One Commodity as a Means of Payment," Journal of Political Economy, 85(5), pp. 937-968.
12. Martin Shubik, 1997. "Terrorism, Technology, and the Socioeconomics of Death," Comparative Strategy, 16(4), pp. 399-414.
13. Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, archived from the original on 2019-05-10, retrieved 2019-10-09

Selected publications

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• 1953. "A Comparison of Treatments of a Duopoly Situation," with 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.
• 1959. Strategy and Market Structure: Competition, Oligopoly, and the Theory of Games, Wiley. Description and review extract.
• 1959. Edgeworth Market Games.
• 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
• 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.
• 1970. "A Curmudgeon's Guide to Microeconomics," Journal of Economic Literature, 8(2), pp. 405-434.
• 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
• 1978. "Game Theory: Economic Applications," in W. Kruskal and J.M. Tanur, ed., International Encyclopedia of Statistics, v. 2, pp. 372–78.
• 1980. Market Structure and Behavior, with Richard Levitan, Harvard University Press. Review extract.
• 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.

External links

• Bio at Yale Department of Economics
• Bio and CV at the Yale School of Organization and Management
• Martin Shubik publications indexed by Google Scholar
• "Martin Shubik". JSTOR.