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We thank Daniel Schiffman for help in compiling this bibliography.


		Aumann, Robert (2003) Risk Aversion in the Talmud, Economic Theory 21: 233239.

		Aumann, Robert J and Maschler, Michael (1985), Game Theoretic Analysis of a Bankruptcy Problem from the Talmud, Journal of Economic Theory 36, 195-213.

		Ben Sasson, Menachem (ed.) (1995), Religion and Economics (in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center.

		Callen, Jeffrey L. (2008) Differential Asset Valuation in the Medieval Post-Talmudic Legal Literature, History of Political Economy 40:1, 183-200.

		Carlton, Dennis W. & Avi Weiss (2001), "The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival, and Jewish Attitudes toward Competition in Torah Education," Journal of Legal Studies 30:1, 253-75.

		Darvish, Tikva and Nava Kahana (1987), The Nature of Utility in Jewish Law , International Review of Law and Economics 7:1, 127-131.

		Gershfield, Edward (1986), Business Regulation and Price Control in Talmudic Economics, International Journal of Social Economics 13:9, 45-51.

		Grossbard Schechtman, Shoshana, (2002), Competitive Marriage Markets and Jewish Law , in The Economics of Judaism and Jewish Human Capital, in Chiswick, Carmel, Tikva Lecker and Nava Kahana (eds.), Ramat-Gan, Israel: Bar Ilan University Press, (2002). Revised Version 2006.

		Grossbard-Shechtman, Amyra (1984/85) Economics, Judaism, and Marriage , Dinei Israel 12, (in Hebrew).

		Hollander, Gideon, Nava Kahana and Tikva Lecker (1999), Property Rights to Married Womens Earnings: A Topic in Jewish Law, Contemporary Jewry 20:1, 57-67.

		Ilani, Zvi (1979), Models in the Economics of Uncertainty: The Cost of Concluding a Conditional Contract, according to the Talmud and the Halachic Literature, Iyunim Bekalkala (Investigations in Economics), The Israel Association for Economics, Jerusalem, Nissan 5740 (April 1980), 246261 (in Hebrew).

		Kahane, Yehuda (1980), Modern management parallels in ancient law , Risk Management (January), 29-37.

		Katz, Eliakim and Jacob Rosenberg, 2003 "Property Rights, Theft, Amnesty and Efficiency," European Journal of Law and Economics 15:3, 219-32.

		Kleiman, Ephraim (1973), Bi-metallism, Two Mishna Versions, and the Date of Rabbi Yehudas Death, Zion (in Hebrew) 38, 4861.

		Kleiman, Ephraim (1987a), Just Price in Talmudic Literature , History of Political Economy 19, 2345.

		Kleiman, Ephraim (1987b), Opportunity Costs, Human Capital, and Some Related Economic Concepts in Talmudic Literature, History of Political Economy 19, 26187.

		Kleiman, Ephraim (1997), Ancient and Medieval Rabbinic Economic Thought: Definitions, Methodology and Illustrations in Price , B.B. (ed.), Ancient Economic Thought, London and New York: Routledge.

		Kleiman, Ephraim (2003), Was There an Economic Man in Antiquity?, Some Evidence from the Talmud, Research Bulletin Series on Jewish Law and Economics, Bar Ilan University.

		Levine, Aaron (1975), Opportunity Cost as Treated in Talmudic Literature , Tradition 15: 153-72.

		Liebermann,Yehoshua (1979), Elements in Talmudic Monetary Thought , History of Political Economy 11, 25570.

		Liebermann, Yehoshua (1981), The Coase Theorem in Jewish Law , Journal of Legal Studies 10: 293-303.

		Liebermann, Yehoshua (1983), The Economics of Ketubah Valuation , History of Political Economy 15:4, 519-28.

		Liebermann, Yehoshua (1986), Economic Efficiency and Making of the Law: The Case of Transaction Costs in Jewish Law, Journal of Legal Studies 15: 2, 387-404.

		Liebermann,Yehoshua (1989), Business Competition in Jewish Law, (in Hebrew). Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar Ilan University Press.

		Lifshitz, Yosef Yitzchak (2004), Foundations of a Jewish Economic Theory, Autumn 2004, Azure 18.

		Lifshitz, Yosef Yitzchak (2009), Kahal as Spontaneous Order , JIMS Discussion Paper Series, JIMS23062009.

		Naeh, Shlomo and Uzi Segal, (2008) The Talmud on Transitivity, Boston College Working Paper #687.

		Ohrenstein, R.A. (1968), "Economic thought in Talmudic literature in the light of modern economics", American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 27 No.2, pp.187-90.

		Ohrenstein, Roman, A. (1998) Talmud and Talmudic Tradition: A Socioeconomic Perspective, in Lowry, S. Todd and Barry Gordon (eds.), Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice, Leiden: Brill.

		Ohrenstein, R.A., Gordon, B. (1989), "Quantitative dimensions of human capital analysis in Talmudic literature", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 16 No.6, pp.8-10.

		Ohrenstein, Roman, A. (2007), The Talmudic Doctrine of The Benefit of a Pleasure: Psychological Well-Being in Talmudic Literature , American Journal of Economics and Sociology 66:4, 661-680.

		Ohrenstein, Roman A. and Barry Gordon (1992), Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature: Rabbinic Thought in the Light of Modern Economics, Leiden: E.J. Brill.

		Paris, Dov (1998), An Economic Look at the Old Testament , in Lowry, S. Todd and Barry Gordon (eds.), Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice, Leiden: Brill.

		Rosenberg, Jacob (1984/85), The Position of Halacha on Market Competition , Dinei Yisrael 12, 25-32.

		Rosenberg, Jacob (2002), The Economic Approach to the Jewish Law of Damages: The Case of Damage by Fire , Research Bulletin Series on Jewish Law and Economics, Bar Ilan University.

		Rosenberg, Jacob (2003), Kindness as a Signal of Honesty: An Analysis of the Role of Chassidim in Ancient Jewish Society , in Chiswick, Carmel, Tikva Lecker and Nava Kahana (eds.), Economics of Judaism, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press

		Sauer, Robert and Sauer, Corinne (2007) Judaism, Markets, and Capitalism: Separating Myth from Reality, Acton Institute.

		Schein, Andrew (2001), An Economic Analysis of the Obligation in Jewish Law for Price Controls, Dine Israel 20-21, 31-47.

		Schein, Andrew (2003), Of Biblical Interest, Brotherhood and Charity , International Journal of Social Economics 30:7, 788-97.

		Schein, Andrew (2004), A Biblical Precedent for the Coase Theorem? , Journal of Markets and Morality 7:2, 495-504.

		Schein, Andrew (2006), The Vision of Deuteronomy 15 with Regard to Poverty , Socialism, and Capitalism, Journal of Markets & Morality 9:2, 251-259.

		Schein, Andrew (2007), Rabbinic intervention in the market for necessities , BDD 18, pp. 53-65.

		Schiffman, Daniel A. (2005), The Valuation of Coins in Medieval Jewish Jurisprudence , Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27: 141-160.

		Schiffman, Daniel (forthcoming) Rabbinical Perspectives on Money in Seventeenth Century Ottoman Egypt, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

		Shapiro, Aharon (1970), Rabbinical Responsa and the Regulation of Competition , American Journal of Economics and Sociology 29:1, 71-76.

		Sharfman, Keith (2007), The Law and Economics of Hoarding , Loyola Consumer Law Review 19:2, 179-193.

		Viswanath, P.V. (1998), Risk Sharing in the Mishna: An Economic Explanation of a Mishnaic Law Pertaining to Agricultural Rental Contracts , Proceedings of the International Conference on Law, Jewish Law and Economics at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, December. (This is a less technical version of the 2000 article)

		Viswanath, P.V. (2000), Risk Sharing, Diversification and Moral Hazard in Roman Palestine: Evidence From Agricultural Contract Law, International Review of Law and Economics 20:3, pp. 353-369.

		P.V. Viswanath (2008), Explorations in the Economics of Intertemporal Asset Transfer in Roman Palestine, The American Economist 52:2, 77-86.

		Viswanath, P.V. and Michael Szenberg (2003), Examining the Biblical Perspective on the Environment in a Costly Contracting Framework, in Chiswick, Carmel and Tikva Lehrer (eds.), Economics of Judaism, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press.

		Weissman, Seth, (1998) From Roman Palestine to American Express: Price Matching and How Rationing Refunds Improves Welfare. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, Columbia University.

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