The Theory of Money and
Financial Institutions
volume 2
This is the second 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 2 explores the new
economic features that arise when we consider multiperiod finite and infinite horizon
economies.
Contents
MULTIPERIOD EXCHANGE
1 Multiperiod Trade with
Commodity Money and Nondurable Goods
2 Multiperiod Trade with
Commodity Money and Durable Goods
3 Multiperiod Trade with
Commodity Money and Credit
4 Multiperiod Trade with Fiat
Money and Credit
TRADE AND THE INFINITE
HORIZON
5 Multiperiod Trade:
Transactions and the Float
6 Capital Stock, Salvage
Values, and Expectations
7 Expectations, Uncertainty,
Information, and Finance
8 Money, Credit, and
Incomplete Markets
9 Multiperiod Trade with
Money, Credit, Assets, and Overlapping Generations
MONEY AND INSTITUTIONS
10 Transactions Technology
and Costs
11 Brokers, Dealers, and
Setup Costs
12 Money, Institutions, and
Political Economy
372 pages