The Theory of Money
andFinancial Institutions
volume 1
This is the first
volume in a three volume exposition of Martin Shubik's vision of "mathematical
institutional economics"a term he coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical
underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop
a process-oriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro and
macroeconomics, using as a prime tool the theory of games in strategic and extensive form.
The approach involves a search for minimal financial institutions that appear as a
logical, technological, and institutional necessity, as part of the "rules of the
game." Money and financial institutions are assumed to be the basic elements of the
network that transmits the sociopolitical imperatives to the economy.
Volume 1 deals with a
one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy.
CONTEXT
1 Introduction and Background
2 The Basic Financial
Instruments of an Economy
3 Micro and Macro
4 General Equilibrium and
Beyond
EXCHANGE AND MONEY
5 The Distribution of
Resources, Trade, and Markets
6 Trade Using a Commodity
Money
7 Market Mechanisms with
Simple Markets
8 Auctions, Markets, and
Trade Fairs
9 Trade with Gold, Credit,
and Inside Money
10 Trade with Gold and
Fractional Reserves
11 One-Period Trade with Fiat
Money
12 Money, Credit, and
Bankruptcy
13 Money as a Numeraire,
Means of Payment, Store of Value, and Substitute for Individual Trust
14 Trade and Paper
15 Liquidity and the Velocity
of Money
445 pages