With all your possessions
Subtitle: Jewish ethics and economic life
By: Meir Tamari
Contributors: Kupietzky family, sponsoring body
Edition: First Maggid edition. [New edition].
Publisher: Maggid Books [an imprint of Koren Publishers]
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Milford, CT; Jerusalem, Israel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781592643110
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Commercial law (Jewish law); Public law (Jewish law); Economics; Judaism; Jews; Economic conditions; Judaism and social problems; Jewish ethics; Business ethics
Description: In face of the age-old slander against Jewish business ethics, noted economist and rabbinic scholar Meir Tamari puts forth a rigorous defense of Jewish economy as a highly ethical system combining free-market practices with social welfare, competition with compassion. From the biblical story of Ruth to modern taxation response, With All Your Possessions demonstrates how the Jew's economic life, attitude toward material assets, and mercantile conduct all reflect strict ethical principles. Detailing the history, laws, and customs of Jewish economic activity, Tamari presents an overview of the world's oldest system of economics still in use--and the uncompromising moral code that underlies it. (Publisher).
Notes: "The Kupietzky edition."

Copyright held by the author.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the new edition; title: Ethical reflections of the post-2008 global financial crisis; title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: An overview of Jewish law; title: The challenge of wealth; title: The economic history of the Jews: An overview; title: Competition, prices, and profits; title: Wages and labor; title: Money, banking, and interest; title: Taxation; title: Welfare; title: Environmental issues and the public good.