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By Aaron Levine (1946-2011)

Economic Morality and Jewish Law compares the way welfare economics and Jewish legislation verify the propriety of an fiscal motion, no matter if via a personal citizen or the govt.. Espousing what philosophers might name a consequentialist moral process, welfare economics evaluates the worthiness of an fiscal motion in accordance with no matter if the motion might raise the wealth of society ultimately. In sharp distinction, Jewish legislation espouses a deontological process of ethics. inside of this moral procedure, the choice of the propriety of an motion is fullyyt an issue of learning the acceptable rule in Judaism's code of ethics.

This quantity explores a number of matters implicating morality for either person advertisement job and financial public coverage. concerns tested contain expense controls, the dwelling salary, the lemons challenge, brief promoting, and Ronald Coase's seminal theories on unfavourable externalities. to supply an analytic framework for the examine of those concerns, the paintings first delineates the normative theories at the back of the idea that of monetary morality for welfare economics and Jewish legislations, and provides a case learn illustrating the deontological nature of Jewish law.

The e-book introduces what for plenty of readers might be a brand new viewpoint on time-honored monetary matters. regardless of the very assorted ways that welfare economics and Jewish legislation soak up comparing the worthiness of an monetary motion, the writer unearths a impressive symmetry among the 2 platforms of their final prescriptions for yes monetary issues.

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