Martin Joseph Beckmann (5 July 1924 – 11 April 2017) was a professor for Economics and Applied Mathematics. He was professor at Yale University and Brown University, as well as the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Munich. He received honorary degrees from the University of Karlsruhe, the Umeå University and the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg. He was president of the European Regional Science Association and received the Regional Science Founders Medal in 1983. His research spans a wide field in spatial analysis and regional economics, with a special focus on transport economics.

Martin Beckmann established basic principles for user behavior on congested transportation networks, as well as for optimal network vehicle flows, when user choices are respectively uncoordinated or coordinated. Beckmann’s contribution launched the new subfield of transportation network economics.

Bibliography

  • Beckmann, Martin; MacGuire, C. B.; Winsten, Christopher B. (1957). . Yale University Press.
  • Beckmann, Martin J. (1968). . Random House.
  • Beckmann, Martin J. (1968). . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:. ISBN978-3-642-86451-3.
  • Beckmann, Martin (1970). (in German). Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag. doi:. ISBN978-3-663-02029-5.
  • Beckmann, Martin J. (1978). . Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Vol.161. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:. ISBN978-3-540-09088-5.
  • Beckmann, Martin J.; Puu, Tönu (1985). Spatial economics: density, potential, and flow. Studies in regional science and urban economics. Amsterdam; New York: New York, N.Y., U.S.A: North-Holland; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co. ISBN978-0-444-87771-0.
  • Beckmann, Martin J. (1988). . Texts and Monographs in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:. ISBN978-3-642-83275-8.
  • Beckmann, Martin J.; Puu, Tönu (1990). Spatial Structures. Advances in Spatial and Network Economics. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN978-3-642-75279-7.
  • Bartmann, Dieter; Beckmann, Martin J. (1992). . Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems. Vol.388. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:. ISBN978-3-540-55820-0.
  • Beckmann, Martin J. (1999). . Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:. ISBN978-3-642-08501-7.
  • Andersson, Åke E.; Beckmann, Martin J. (2009). . Edward Elgar. ISBN978-1-84720-675-6.

Further reading

  • Hauptmann, H.; Krelle, W.; Mosler, K.C., eds. (1984). Operations Research and Economic Theory: Essays in Honor of Martin J. Beckmann. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN978-3-540-13652-1.

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