martin j. osborne

I work for the Department of Economics of the University of Toronto, Toronto. My research interests include game theory and its applications, especially political economy.

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• Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein, Bargaining and markets (Academic Press, 1990) · Full text of book; corrections and updates for printed version
• Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein, A course in game theory (MIT Press, 1994; Chinese translation published by China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2000) [graduate text] · Full text of book; corrections and updates for printed version
• Martin J. Osborne, An introduction to game theory (Oxford University Press, August 2003; Chinese and Greek translations are available) [undergraduate text] · Table of contents, corrections, sample chapters, solutions, search the text
• Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein, Models in microeconomic theory (Open Book Publishers, 2020). The full text of the book is freely available in electronic form: version with feminine pronouns, version with masculine pronouns. (Sales pitch.)

• Published and unpublished articles and a conjecture
• Google Scholar profile

• Mathematical methods for economic theory (major revision 2016)
• The theory of the firm and industry equilibrium

• Mathematical Methods for Economic Theory (Economics 210, undergraduate). [Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019]
• Microeconomic Theory II, unit 1 (Economics 2030, PhD; not taught currently). [Fall 2018, Winter 2018, Winter 2016, Winter 2014]
• Applied Game Theory (Economics 316, third-year undergraduate; not taught currently). [Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Winter 2013]
• Political Economy (Economics 2101, PhD; not taught currently). [Winter 2017]

• Curriculum vitae (pdf)

• LaTeX style files for games (strategic and extensive), exams, figures, and more
• How to create good-looking figures for a LaTeX document
• 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 information

• 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).