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14. Judaism and Development

Curtis, Michael, and Susan Aurelia Gitelson. Israel in the Third World. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1976.

Decalo, S. “Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Third World.” Orbis 9, no. 3 (1967): 724–45.

Eberstadt, N. “Famine, Development and Foreign Aid.” Commentary (American Jewish Committee, New York) 79, no. 3 (March 1985): 25–31.

Gitelson, S. A. “Evolving Relations between Israel and the Third World.” Judaism 29, no. 2 (1980): 197–207.
_______. “Unfulfilled Expectations: Israeli and Arab Aid as Political Instruments in Black African Voting Behaviour.” Jewish Social Studies 38, no. 2 (1976): 159–75.

Government of Israel. Development Options for Cooperation: The Middle East/East Mediterranean Region, 1996. Jerusalem: Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Ministry of Finance, 1995.

Laufer, Leopold Yehuda. Israel and the Developing Countries: New Approaches to Cooperation. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1967.

Lawton, Clive. “Judaism.” In Ethical Issues in Six Religious Traditions, eds. Peggy Morgan and Clive Lawton, 135–74. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.

Penslar, D. J. “The Origins of Modern Jewish Philanthropy.” In Philanthropy in the World’s Traditions, eds. Warren F. Ilchman, Stanley N. Katz, and Edward L. Queen, II, 197–214. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Shapiro, R. M. “Judaism and Globalization.” Vedanta Kesari (Chennai, India) 86 (December 1999): 498–500.

Zohar, N. J. “Boycott, Crime and Sin: Ethical and Talmudic Responses to Injustices Abroad.” Ethics and International Affairs 7 (1993): 39–53.

 

Jewish Economics
Aberbach, Moses. Labor, Crafts, and Commerce in Ancient Israel. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, Hebrew University 1994.

Aharoni, Yair. The Israeli Economy: Dreams and Realities. London; New York: Routledge, 1991.

Alexander, E. “Economics: Alternative Economics?” Jewish Frontier 58, no. 3 (1991): 8–10.

Assis, Yom Tov. Jewish Economy in the Medieval Crown of Aragon, 1213–1327: Money and Power. Brill’s series in Jewish studies; vol. 18. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill, 1997.

Baker, A. I. “Jewish Charity: Habits, Beliefs, and Its Relation to Economic Theory.” M.B.A. thesis, Bernard M. Baruch College, 1977.

Baron, Salo Wittmayer. “The Economic Views of Maimonides.” In Essays on Maimonides, ed. Salo Wittmayer Baron, 127–64. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.

Bentley, P. J. Rabbinic Resources on Economic Policy. New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, Justice and Peace Committee, 1982.

Ben-Porath, Yoram. The Israeli Economy: Maturing through Crises. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

Block, Walter. “Jewish Economics in the Light of Maimonides.” International Journal of Social Economics 17, no. 3 (1990): 60–68.

Bonder, Nilton. The Kabbalah of Money: Insights on Livelihood, Business, and All Forms of Economic Behavior. Translated by Adriana Kar. Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Books, 1996.

Brooks, R. “Support for the Poor in the Mishanic Law of Agriculture.” Brown Judaic Study (Scholars Press, Chico, CA) no. 43 (1983): 17–39.

Bush, Lawrence, and Jeffrey Dekro. Jews, Money, and Social Responsibility: Developing a "Torah of Money” for Contemporary Life. Philadelphia, Pa.: The Shefa Fund, 1993.

Camic, C. “Weber and the Judaic Economic Ethic: A Comment on Fahey.” American Journal of Sociology 89 (1984): 1410–16.

Carlton, D., and A. Weiss. The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival, and Jewish Attitudes toward Competition on Torah Education. Working paper series, no. 7863. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000.

Chiswick, C. U. “The Economics of Contemporary American Family Life.” Studies in Contemporary Jewry 14 (1998): 65–80.

Dalin, D. G. “Judaism’s War on Poverty.” Policy Review no. 85 (1997): 28–33.

Elzinga, K. G. “An Assessment of Jacob Neusner’s The Economics of the Mishnah.” Cultural Dynamics 7, no. 3 (1995): 281–98.

Epstein, Isidore. Social Legislation in the Talmud. Torah va’avodah library: Ideological series. London: Brit Chalutzim Datiim—Bachad, 1947.

Fahey, T. “Max Weber’s Ancient Judaism.” American Journal of Sociology 88 (1984): 62–87.

Fishman, A. “Religious Socialism and Economic Success on the Orthodox Kibbutz.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 150, no. 4 (1994): 763–68.

Fishman, A., and Y. Goldschmidt. “The Orthodox Kibbutzim and Economic Success.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religions 29, no. 4 (1990): 505–11.

Gershfield, E. M. “Business Regulation and Price Control in Talmudic Economics.” International Journal of Social Economics 13, no. 9 (1986): 45–51.

Gordon, Barry. The Economic Problem in Biblical and Patristic Thought. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 9. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill, 1989.

Gutwein, D. “Economics, Politics, and Historiography: Hayyim D. Horowitz and the Interrelationship of Jews and Capitalism.” Jewish Social Studies 1, no. 1 (1994): 94–114.

Halevi, Nadav, and Ruth Klinov-Malul. The Economic Development of Israel. Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development series. New York: Praeger, 1968.

Hauptman, J. “Judaism and a Just Economy.” Tikkun 9, no. 1 (1994): 55–57.

Hill, P. J. “Reflections on Aaron Levine’s Economics and Jewish Law: Hakkhic Perspectives.” Cultural Dynamics 7, no. 3 (1995): 371–86.

Hirsch, Richard G. The Way of the Upright: A Jewish View of Economic Justice. Issues of Conscience series. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations for the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, 1973.

Hoppe, L. J. “The Torah Responds to the Poor.” The Bible Today 32, no. 5 (1994): 277–82.

Kanovsky, Eliyahu. The Economy of the Israeli Kibbutz. Harvard Middle Eastern monographs, 13. Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press, 1966.

Kleiman, E. “Ancient and Medieval Rabbinic Economic Thought: Definitions, Methodology and Illustrations.” In Ancient Economic Thought, ed. B. B. Price, 76–96. Routledge Studies in the History of Economics, 13. London; New York: Routledge, 1997.
_______. “‘Just Price’ in Talmudic Literature.” History of Political Economy 19, no. 1 (1987): 23–45.
_______. “Opportunity Cost, Human Capital, and Some Related Concepts in Talmudic Literature.” History of Political Economy 19, no. 3 (1987): 262.

Levine, Aaron. Economic Public Policy and Jewish Law. The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics, v. 19. Hoboken: Ktav Publishing House; New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1993.
_______. “The Interface between Economics and Halakhah: The Case of Minimum Wage Legislation.” Torah U-Madda Journal (Yeshiva University, New York) 1 (1989): 59–67.
_______. Economics and Jewish Law: Halakhic Perspectives. The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics, v. 13. Hoboken: Ktav Publishing House; New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1987.

Maman, Daniel. “The Social Organization of the Israeli Economy: A Comparative Analysis.” Israel Affairs (London) 5, nos. 2–3 (1999): 87–102.

Mankelow, G. J. Some Economic Aspects of the Mosaic Law. Occasional Paper, no. 137. Newcastle, NSW, Australia: Department of Economics, University of Newcastle, 1987.

Morris, Paul. “Judaism and Capitalism.” In Religion and the Transformations of Capitalism: Comparative Approaches, ed. Richard H. Roberts, 88–120. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Neusner, Jacob. The Mishnah: Social Perspectives. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, 46. Bd. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 1999.
_______. The Economics of the Mishnah. Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism series. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago, 1990.

Novak, David. “Economics and Justice: A Jewish Example.” In The Capitalist Spirit: Toward a Religious Ethic of Wealth Creation, ed. Peter L. Berger, 31–50. San Francisco, Calif.: ICS Press; Lanham, Md.: Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, 1990.

Ohrenstein, Roman A. “The Socio-Economic Time Dimension of Talmudic Literature.” International Journal of Social Economics 23, nos. 4–6 (1996): 357–69.
_______. “Business Cycle Analysis in Talmudic Literature.” International Journal of Social Economics 20, no. 1 (1993): 40–50.
_______. “Value Analysis in Talmudic Literature in the Light of Modern Economics.” International Journal of Social Economics 13, no. 3 (1986): 34–52.
_______. “Economic Analysis of Talmudic Literature: Some Ancient Studies of Value.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 39, no. 1 (1980): 22.
_______. “Economic Self Interest and Social Progress in Talmudic Literature: A Further Study of Ancient Economic Thought and its Modern Significance.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 29, no. 1 (1970): 59–70.
_______. “Economic Thought in Talmudic Literature in the Light of Modern Economics.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 27, no. 2 (1968): 190–92.
_______. “Risk Uncertainty and Expectation in Talmudic Literature.” International Journal of Social Economics 18, nos. 11–12 (1991): 4–15.
_______. Some Aspects of Human Capital in Talmudic Literature. Occasional Paper, no. 120. Newcastle, NSW, Australia: Department of Economics, University of Newcastle, 1985.

Penslar, Derek Jonathan. Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2001.
_______. “The Origins of Jewish Political Economy.” Jewish Social Studies 3, no. 3 (1997): 26–60.

Perlman, M. “Jews and Contributions to Economics: A Bicentennial Review.” Judaism 25, no. 3 (1976): 301–11.

Poliakov, Léon. Jewish Bankers and the Holy See: From the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Century. Translated by Miriam Kochan. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization series. London; Boston: Routledge and K. Paul, 1977.

Ravid, B. “An Introduction to the Economic History of the Iberian Diaspora in the Mediterranean.” Judaism 41, no. 3 (1992): 268–85.

Rosenthal, D. “Jews in the Economy of Poland.” Midstream 46, no. 2 (2000): 13–16.

Rubinstein, W. D. “Jews in the Economic Elites of Western Nations and Anti-Semitism.” Jewish Journal of Sociology 42, nos. 1–2 (2000): 5–35.

Rubner, Alex. The Economy of Israel: A Critical Account of the First Ten Years. London: F. Cass, 1960.

Sanua, V. D. “The Contribution of Sephardic Jews to the Economic and Industrial Development of Egypt.” Los Muestros 35 (1999): 25–26.

Sarachek, B. “Jewish American Entrepreneurs.” Journal of Economic History 40, no. 2 (1980): 359–72.

Shapiro, A. “The Treatment of Poverty in the Talmud.” International Journal of Social Economics 13, no. 6 (1986): 54–59.

Shapiro, E. S. “Jews with Money.” Judaism 36, no. 1 (1987): 7–16.

Tamari, Meir. “Judaism, the Jewish State, and Economic Freedom.” Cultural Dynamics 7, no. 3 (1995): 441–55.

Thompstone, Stuart. “Central Asia’s Jewish Minority and Its Contribution to Tsarist Russia’s Economic Development.” Renaissance and Modern Studies 38 (1995): 60–79.

Wilson, Rodney. Economics, Ethics, and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Economic Thought. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press; New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Wilson, R. “Contemporary Jewish, Christian and Muslim Economic Thought.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 8, no. 4 (1997): 307–17.

 

 

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