Economic Fables
"I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model." Part memoir...
"I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making social and economic decisions as the opinion of an expert using a model." Part memoir, part crash-course in economic theory, this deeply engaging book by one of the world's foremost economists looks at economic ideas through a personal lens. Together with an introduction to some of the central concepts in modern economic thought, Ariel Rubinstein offers some powerful and entertaining reflections on his childhood, family and career. In doing so, he challenges many of the central tenets of game theory, and sheds light on the role economics can play in society at large. Economic Fables is as thought-provoking for seasoned economists as it is enlightening for newcomers to the field.
Ariel Rubinstein was born in Jerusalem in 1951 and lives in Tel Aviv. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979. Has been a Professor at the Hebrew University and at Princeton. Currently he is a (Emeritus) Professor at Tel Aviv University and a Professor at New York University. He has served as the President of the Econometric Society (2004). He is a ...
Ariel Rubinstein was born in Jerusalem in 1951 and lives in Tel Aviv. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979. Has been a Professor at the Hebrew University and at Princeton. Currently he is a (Emeritus) Professor at Tel Aviv University and a Professor at New York University. He has served as the President of the Econometric Society (2004). He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Economic Association, a Fellow of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He won the Israel Prize (2002), the Nemmers Prize (2004), the EMET prize (2006) and the Rothschild Prize (2010). He has written 105 articles and 6 books: Bargaining and Markets (with M. Osborne) (1990), A Course in Game Theory (with M. Osborne) (1994), Modeling Bounded Rationality (1998), Economics and Language (2000), Lecture Notes in Microeconomics (2005), and, with OBP, Models in Microeconomic Theory (2020). His main fields of research are Economic Theory, Decision Theory, Models of Bounded Rationality and Game Theory.