martin j. osborne

I'm an economic theorist with interests in game theory and political economy. I retired from a position at the Department of Economics of the University of Toronto in 2022.

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• 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, China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2000) [full text freely available]
• Martin J. Osborne, An introduction to game theory (Oxford University Press, August 2003; English reprint edition, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press, 2005; Chinese translation, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Press, 2010; Greek translation, Klidarithmos Editions, 2010.) [six chapters freely available]
• Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein, Models in microeconomic theory (Open Book Publishers, 2020); expanded second edition, 2023 [full text freely available] New 2026.8.4: Chinese translation of first edition [full text freely available]
• Published 2025.9.12 Martin J. Osborne, Models in political economy (Open Book Publishers, 2025) [full text freely available]

• Published and unpublished articles and a conjecture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 (undergraduate). (Taught for the last time in Fall 2021.)
• Microeconomic Theory II, unit 1 (graduate). (Taught for the last time in Fall 2018.) New March 2025: slides and problem sets publicly available
• Applied Game Theory (undergraduate). (Taught for the last time in Fall 2017.) New March 2025: slides and problem sets publicly available
• 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.)

• Curriculum vitae (pdf)

• LaTeX style files for games (strategic and extensive), exams, figures, and more
• Review of BaKoMa TeX Word
• Using BibTeX and BibLaTeX: a short guide.
• Search for BibTeX style files by supported fields.
• 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

• martin.j.osborne on gmail

• Theoretical Economics (open-access journal in economic theory) • Early history of the journal
• 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"
• Caught on camera
• Remembrance of things past
• PoET: Prices and ratings of economics textbooks (no longer updated)
• Economic activity along Bloor Street, Toronto, since 1950 (data from 2025 survey added November 2025)
• "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).