The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics

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. Jewish Environmental Ethics; Yehuda L. Klein and Jonathan Weiser; 21. The Global Recession of 2007-2009- The Moral factor; And Jewish Law;

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

"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 practice--especially business ethics. The volume spans thousands of years, from Biblical times to modern Israel, and one may expect it to become a standard reference."--Robert John Aumann, Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2005

"These new essays assembled by Aaron Levine constitute a landmark in bringing Jewish law and Jewish history to bear on economics as an intellectual discipline. The collection is remarkable both for its astonishing range and for the depth of scholarship on display in many of the individual essays. Scholars working at the intersection of economics and Judaica will be citing these essays for decades."--Benjamin M. Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University, author of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

"What a wonderful contribution! Aaron Levine has put together a book containing individual papers that cover many diverse aspects of Judaism from the Bible and Talmud to modern day law and society. All the papers are tied together by the use of economic reasoning to gain insight into each subject. The book is breathtaking in its scope and shows the power of economic thinking to illuminate the rich tradition and history of Judaism. A striking contribution of the book is to show the relevance of Judaism to many of today's ethical and practical problems."--Dennis W. Carlton, Katherine Dusak Miller Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago