Author

Publication

2012 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

65,750 words, Guess

Page Count

263 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780199826865
  • ISBN-100199826862
  • Library of Congress Control Number2012004775
  • OCLC Control Number777655941
  • Better World Books9780199826865
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC296.3/64
  • LCCKBM524.145 .L48 2012
  • LCCKBM524.145.L48 2012

Description

Aaron Levine 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 contrast, Jewish law espouses a deontological system of ethics within which the determination of the propriety of an action is entirely a matter of discovering the applicable rule in Judaism's code of ethics.

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