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Economic morality and Jewish law
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ISBN: 0199974373 0190261366 0199826862 1306194369 9780199974375 9780190261368 9780199826865 0199996156 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Economic Morality and Jewish Law compares the way in which welfare economics and Jewish law determine the propriety of an economic action, whether by a private citizen or the government. Espousing what philosophers would call a consequentialist ethical system, welfare economics evaluates the worthiness of an economic action based on whether the action would increase the wealth of society in the long run. In sharp contrast, Jewish law espouses a deontological system of ethics. Within this ethical system, the determination of the propriety of an action is entirely a matter of discovering the app

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