Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature

2009-06-17

This book discusses the economics of the Talmud in the light of modern economics.

Author: Roman Ohrenstein

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789047428084

Category: Religion

Page: 252

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This book discusses the economics of the Talmud in the light of modern economics. Its focus is on the intricate debates, statements and principles that were forged by the great minds of the Talmudic Rabbis. This ancient storehouse of learning includes a wealth of economic knowledge of modern sophistication. The book taps those "economic treasures" by way of analytic inquiry.
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Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature

2022-07-04

This book discusses the economics of the Talmud in the light of modern economics.

Author: Barry Gordon

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004509115

Category: Religion

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This book discusses the economics of the Talmud in the light of modern economics. Its focus is on the intricate debates, statements and principles that were forged by the great minds of the Talmudic Rabbis. This ancient storehouse of learning includes a wealth of economic knowledge of modern sophistication. The book taps those "economic treasures" by way of analytic inquiry.
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Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature

2009

International Journal of Social Economics (Incorporating, The International Review of Economics and Ethics), MCB University Press, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Ohrenstein “Value Analysis in Talmudic Literature in the Light of ...

Author: Roman A. Ohrenstein

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004174627

Category: Religion

Page: 232

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This lucidly written study is unique in that there is no book extant by an economic historian that discusses Talmudic economics in the light of modern economics. Its major focus is on the intricate debates, statements and principles that were forged by the Talmudic Rabbis. This ancient storehouse of learning includes a wealth of economic knowledge of modern sophistication. The book taps these "economic treasures" by way of analytic inquiry. The authors, both economic historians and economists, through their study of the original dialectics in the Talmud, were able to discern a wide range of macro- and micro-economic ideas of major significance. These concepts when viewed from either a contemporary or a modern perspective, display an extraordinary degree of insight and sophistication. Indeed, sections of the Talmud and the reflections of subsequent commentators on those passages, embody a wealth of economic thought that was later to become significant in the reasoning of political economists, or of their professional academic successors.
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Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice

1998

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology , April 1968 ( Vol . 27 , No. 2 ) , pp . 187-190 . Ohrenstein , Roman A. and Barry Gordon , Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature , Ch . 1 , “ The Talmud and Its Method , ” pp .

Author: S. Todd Lowry

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9004099646

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 611

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13 scholars contribute to this survey of past discussions of the workings of economic structures and of justice in interpersonal relations, cultural institutions and the social order. They investigate the sources in each historic period from the world of the Old Testament and the ancient Greeks through to Spanish scholasticism and its offshoots in the Spanish Americas of the 18th century and relate the ideas of writers from the past to modern discussions.
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Economics Ethics and Religion

1997-02-24

Ephraim Kleiman, “Just price” in Talmudic literature', History of Political Economy, Vol. 19, No. 1, 1987, pp. 23–45, * Ibid., p. 43. * A detailed economic analysis of the Talmudic literature has been carried out by Roman A. Ohrenstein.

Author: R. Wilson

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230374720

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 233

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There is a revival of interest by economists in ethical issues and beliefs, and by moral philosophers and theologians in economics. This book is intended to make a contribution to this cross-fertilisation of ideas. Rodney Wilson has undertaken an extensive survey of Jewish, Christian and Muslim views on economics, and reviewed the rapidly expanding business ethics literature from a religious perspective. The juxtaposition of the work of theologians and moral philosophers with that of economists results in some interesting comparisons.
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The Economics of the Mishnah

1990-01-23

Economic Analysis before Adam Smith : Hesiod to Lessius ( New York : Barnes and Noble . 1975 ) . ... Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature : Some Ancient Studies of Value . " American Journal of Economics and Sociology 39 ( 1980 ) ...

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 0226576566

Category: Business & Economics

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In this compelling study, Jacob Neusner argues that economics is an active and generative ingredient of the system of the Mishnah. The Mishnah directly addresses such economic concerns as the value of work, agronomics, currency, commerce and the marketplace, and correct management of labor and of the household. In all its breadth, the Mishnah poses the question of the critical place occupied by the economy in society under God's rule. The Economics of the Mishnah is the first book to examine the place of economic theory generally in the Judaic system of the Mishnah. Jacob Neusner begins by surveying previous work on economics and Judaism, the best known being Werner Sombart's The Jews and Modern Capitalism. The mistaken notion that Jews have had a common economic history has outlived the demise of Sombart's argument, and it is a notion that Neusner overturns before discussing the Mishnaic economics. Only in Aristotle, Neusner argues, do we find an equal to the Mishnah's accomplishment in engaging economics in the service of a larger systemic statement. Neusner shows that the framers of the Mishnah imagined a distributive economy functioning through the Temple and priesthood, while also legislating for the action of markets. The economics of the Mishnah, then, is to some extent a mixed economy. The dominant, distributive element in this mixed economy, Neusner contends, derives from the belief that the Temple and its designated castes on earth exercise God's claim to the ownership of the holy land. He concludes by considering the implications of the derivation of the Mishnah's economics from the interests of the undercapitalized and overextended farmer.
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Economic Analysis before Adam Smith

1975-06-18

The main reason for this lack is the fact that, in the English language at least, as Roman Ohrenstein points out (“Economic Thought in Talmudic Literature in the Light of Modern Economics', American Journal of Economics and Sociology, ...

Author: Barry Gordon

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9781349021161

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 282

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The Transformation of Judaism

2011

Ohrenstein, Roman A., “Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature: Some Ancient Studies of Value,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 1979, 38:00-00. Ohrenstein, Roman A., “Economic Self-Interest and Social Progress in Talmudic ...

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9780761854395

Category: Religion

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Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system. He reviews the initial statements made in The Transformation of Judaism: From Philosophy to Religion. The book summarizes ten years of work, from 1980 to 1990.
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The Mishnah

2002

But Ohrenstein , cited below , is worse . idem . , Economic Analysis before Adam Smith : Hesiod to Lessius ( N.Y. ... “ Economic Thought in Talmudic Literature in the Light of Modern Economics , ” American Journal of Economics and ...

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 0391041592

Category: Religion

Page: 270

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Jacob Neusner looks at the Mishnah not as an inert collection of traditions passed on, but as a deliberate, programmatic statement of Judaism's way of life and world view. By paying attention to how the Mishnah uses traditions for its own purposes the interpreter can appreciate the building blocks of Judaism: its politics, economics, and philosophy.
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