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. INDICE: 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 AviWeiss; 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. HetterIska, 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 Behaviorin the Marketplace in Jewish Law; Howard Jachter; 14. Principles of Ethical and Communal Investment in Judaism - A Jewish Law Approach; Asher Meir; 15. TheArt 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 EdwardReichman; 18. The Theory of 'Efficient Breach': A Jewish Law Perspective; Ronald Warburg; 4.: Economic Public Policy and Jewish Law; 19. Public and PrivateInternational Law; From the Perspective of Jewish Law; Michael J. Broyde; 20.Jewish Environmental Ethics; Yehuda L. Klein and Jonathan Weiser; 21. The Global Recession of 2007-2009- The Moral factor; And Jewish Law; Aaron Levine; 22. The Employee Free Choice Act, Unions and Unionizing in Jewish Law; Dani Rapp; 23. Rabbinic Responses to Rapid Inflation in Israel, 1973-1985; Daniel Schiffman; 24. Jewish Ethics, the State, and Economic Freedom; Meir Tamari; 5.: Comparative Law Studies Relating to Economic Issues; 25. Economic Substance and the Laws of Interest: A Comparison of Jewish and U.S. Federal Tax Law; Adam Chodorow; 26. Transfer Of Ownership In E-Commerce Trnsactions From The Perspective Of Jewish Law: In Light Of Israeli and American Law; Ron S. Kleinman and Amal Jabareen; 27. The Jewish Guarantor and Secular Law:; Stumbling Blocks and Their Removal; Roger Lister; 6.: Judaism and Economic History; 28. Babylonian Jews at the Intersection of the; Iranian Economy and Sasanian law; Yaakov Elman;29. Coins and Money in Jewish Law and Literature:; A Basic Introduction and Selective Survey; Laurence J. Rabinovich; 30. Talmudic Monetary Theory:; Currency in Rabbinic halakhah; Lawrence H.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539862-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
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- Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2011
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