Economics of the Mishnah

Name: Economics of the Mishnah
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ISBN: 9780226576558

ISBN-10: 0226576558

ISBN-13: 9780226576558

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Authors: Jacob Neusner

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In this compelling study, Jacob Neusner argues that economics is an active and generative ingredient of the system of the Mishnah. The Mishnah directly addresses such economic concerns as the value of work, agronomics, currency, commerce and the marketplace, and correct management of labor and of the household. In all its breadth, the Mishnah poses the question of the critical place occupied by the economy in society under God's rule. The Economics of the Mishnah is the first book to examine the place of economic theory generally in the Judaic system of the Mishnah. Jacob Neusner begins by surveying previous work on economics and Judaism, the best known being Werner Sombart's The Jews and…

Book details

List price: $94.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface



The Economics of Judaism



The Initial Statement: The System of the Mishnah and Its Economics



Economics in Antiquity



The Mishnah's Market Economics: The Household



The Market



Wealth



The Mishnah's Distributive Economics: Householder, Market, Wealth



Theology, Class Ideology, and Distributive Economics: Cui Bono?


Appendixes



Toward the Analysis of Systems and the Comparison of Rationalities



The Mishnah in Canonical Context and the Next Stages in Study of the Economics of Judaism


Notes


Index