The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics explores how Judaism, as a religion, and Jews, as a people, relate to the economic sphere of life in modern society, and how they did so in past societies.

Zusatztext Rabbi Dr. Aaron Levine is a world-renowned authority on the Talmud, on Economics, and on Ethics. Here he has put together a remarkable collection of essays on and surveys of a very wide range of issues bearing on the relationship between Jewish literature, law, and practice on the one hand, and on the other hand, economic theory and business practic? Informationen zum Autor Aaron Levine is Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics and Chairman, Department of Economics, School of Liberal Arts, Yeshiva University Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics explores how Judaism, as a religion, and Jews, as a people, relate to the economic sphere of life in modern society, and how they did so in past societies. Zusammenfassung At once it must be recognized that religious law by its very nature regulates and restricts the conduct of its adherents. One of the major foci of The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics is therefore to describe the impact economic regulation in Jewish law has on the integration of Jews into the economic fabric of societies governed by different legal systems. Factors that impede integration, as well as those that facilitate it, are identified. More globally, a number of the papers in this volume discuss the positive contribution of Jewish business ethics to the morality of the marketplace, as well as Jewish legal perspectives on economic public policy. In the discipline of economics, advances in theory provide the grist for debate regarding the appropriate role for government. Accordingly, this volume presents papers dealing with economic theory in the Bible and Talmud, as well as comparative law studies that relate to economics. Also included are studies of the influence of religious economic law on the economic sphere of life in societies of the past.Finally, this work investigates how successfully Jews, as a people, have integrated into American economic life, and the related question of how economic forces have played a role in causing the American Jew to assimilate, shedding religious practice and commitment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors Prologue Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Aaron Levine 1.: Economic Theory in the Bible 1. The Right of Return: The Biblical Law of Theft Eliakim Katz and Jacob Rosenberg 2. Eliezer the Matchmaker: Ethical Considerations and Modern Negotiation Theory Aaron Levine 3. Land Concentration, Efficiency, Slavery and the Jubilee Jacob Rosenberg and Avi Weiss 2.: Economic Theory in the Talmud 4. Risk and Incentives in the Iska Contract Jeffrey L. Callen 5. Externalities and Public Goods in the Talmud Ephraim Kleiman 6. An Extended Talmudic Search Model Yehoshua Liebermann 7. Optimal Precautions and the Law Of Fire Damages Jacob Rosenberg 8. Valuation in Jewish Law Keith Sharfman 9. Could What You Don't Know Hurt You? Information Asymmetry in Land Markets in Late Antiquity P.V.(Meylekh) Viswanath and Michael Szenberg 3.: Jewish Law, Ethics, and the Modern Society 10. Hetter Iska, the Permissible Venture: A Device to Avoid the Prohibition Against Interest-Bearing Loans J. David Bleich 11. Ethical Demands on Creditors in Jewish Tradition Yoel Domb 12. The Jewish Prohibition of Interest: Themes, Scopes, and Contemporary Applications Daniel Z. Feldman 13. Interloping Behavior in the Marketplace in Jewish Law Howard Jachter 14. Principles of Ethical and Communal Investment in Judaism - A Jewish Law Approach Asher Meir 15. The Art of Moral Criticism: Rebuke in the Jewish Tradition and Beyond Moses L. Pava 16. "Know Before Whom You Stand" Trust, the Marketplace and Judaism Jonas Prager 17. Payment for Organ Donation in Jewish Law Fred Rosner and Edward Reichman 18. The Theory of "Efficient Breach": A Jewish La...

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Aaron Levine is Samson and Halina Bitensky Professor of Economics and Chairman, Department of Economics, School of Liberal Arts, Yeshiva University

Résumé
At once it must be recognized that religious law by its very nature regulates and restricts the conduct of its adherents. One of the major foci of The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics is therefore to describe the impact economic regulation in Jewish law has on the integration of Jews into the economic fabric of societies governed by different legal systems. Factors that impede integration, as well as those that facilitate it, are identified. More globally, a number of the papers in this volume discuss the positive contribution of Jewish business ethics to the morality of the marketplace, as well as Jewish legal perspectives on economic public policy. In the discipline of economics, advances in theory provide the grist for debate regarding the appropriate role for government. Accordingly, this volume presents papers dealing with economic theory in the Bible and Talmud, as well as comparative law studies that relate to economics. Also included are studies of the influence of religious economic law on the economic sphere of life in societies of the past. Finally, this work investigates how successfully Jews, as a people, have integrated into American economic life, and the related question of how economic forces have played a role in causing the American Jew to assimilate, shedding religious practice and commitment.

Contenu

• Contributors

• Prologue

• Preface

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction

• Aaron Levine

• 1.: Economic Theory in the Bible

• 1. The Right of Return: The Biblical Law of Theft

• Eliakim Katz and Jacob Rosenberg

• 2. Eliezer the Matchmaker: Ethical Considerations and Modern Negotiation Theory

• Aaron Levine

• 3. Land Concentration, Efficiency, Slavery and the Jubilee

• Jacob Rosenberg and Avi Weiss

• 2.: Economic Theory in the Talmud

• 4. Risk and Incentives in the Iska Contract

• Jeffrey L. Callen

• 5. Externalities and Public Goods in the Talmud

• Ephraim Kleiman

• 6. An Extended Talmudic Search Model

• Yehoshua Liebermann

• 7. Optimal Precautions and the Law Of Fire Damages

• Jacob Rosenberg

• 8. Valuation in Jewish Law

• Keith Sharfman

• 9. Could What You Don't Know Hurt You?

• Information Asymmetry in Land Markets in Late Antiquity

• P.V.(Meylekh) Viswanath and Michael Szenberg

• 3.: Jewish Law, Ethics, and the Modern Society

• 10. Hetter Iska, the Permissible Venture:

• A Device to Avoid the Prohibition Against Interest-Bearing Loans

• J. David Bleich

• 11. Ethical Demands on Creditors in Jewish Tradition

• Yoel Domb

• 12. The Jewish Prohibition of Interest:

• Themes, Scopes, and Contemporary Applications

• Daniel Z. Feldman

• 13. Interloping Behavior in the Marketplace in Jewish Law

• Howard Jachter

• 14. Principles of Ethical and Communal Investment in Judaism - A Jewish Law Approach

• Asher Meir

• 15. The Art of Moral Criticism: Rebuke in the Jewish Tradition and Beyond

• Moses L. Pava

• 16. "Know Before Whom You Stand" Trust, the Marketplace and Judaism

• Jonas Prager

• 17. Payment for Organ Donation in Jewish Law

• Fred Rosner and Edward Reichman

• 18. The Theory of "Efficient Breach": A Jewish Law Perspective

• Ronald Warburg

• 4.: Economic Public Policy and Jewish Law

• 19. Public and Private International Law

• From the Perspective of Jewish Law

• Michael J. Broyde

• **20. Jewi…