Podcast: Russ Roberts on Hayek, Knowledge, and Jewish Tradition
March 26, 2018 | By: Russ Roberts
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Hayek and His Work Chapter 2: Law, Legislation, and Seeing the Unseen Chapter 3: “I, Pencil” Chapter 4: The Jewish Theory of Knoweldge Chapter 5: Freedom, Holiness, and the Ends of Society It is common today to […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin on the Long Way to Liberty
March 23, 2017 | By: Yuval Levin
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Left and Right on Liberty Chapter 2: Theory and Practice in America Chapter 3: Stations on the Long Road Chapter 4: The Jew in Society Chapter 5: Challenges, Pitfalls, and the Journey to Freedom Lamenting the […]
Read MorePodcast: Matthew Continetti on Irving Kristol’s Theological Politics
March 1, 2017 | By: Matthew Continetti
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Politics Unmasked Chapter 2: Orthodoxy vs. Gnosticism Chapter 3: Two Cheers for Capitalism Chapter 4: What Irving Kristol Means Today Chapter 5: Judaism, Utopianism, and Ideology Irving Kristol was truly one-of-a-kind. He had a capacious mind and […]
Read MoreRav Kook's Economic Thought
October 5, 2016
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook is a founder of religious Zionism and guide for many today. Perhaps less well known are his views on economics. In this lecture, Tikvah alum Rabbi Netanel Elyashiv explains that Rav Kook has a free market teaching about economics, in which he provides spiritual meaning to the workings of the market […]
Read MorePodcast: Jason Bedrick on Jewish Day Schools and School Choice
August 2, 2016 | By: Jason Bedrick
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Evolution of Jewish Education in America Chapter 2: Milton Friedman on“The Role of Government in Education” Chapter 3: State of Jewish Day Schools and the Tuition Crisis Chapter 4: State of School Choice Debate in America Chapter 5: […]
Read MoreThe Moral Costs of Jewish Day School
August 2, 2016 | By: Aryeh Klapper
On top of the rising costs of raising a child in America, Jack Wertheimer estimates that “actively engaged” Jewish families pay a premium of “$50,000 and $110,000 a year just to live a Jewish life.” Behind these financial costs are significant moral ones, Rabbi Aryeh Klapper argues in this 2012 article. High costs of living […]
Read MoreThe Role of Government in Education
August 1, 2016 | By: Milton Friedman
What role should the government play in educating its citizens? In this 1955 essay, economics Nobel laureate Milton Friedman argues that while there is an economic case to be made for government to subsidize the education of the young, it does not follow that government itself should be in the business of running schools. Friedman […]
Read MoreLiberalism and American Jews
July 27, 2016 | By: Irving Kristol
In this 1988 article, Irving Kristol explores historical and theological reasons for Jewish attachment to the politics of the Left: the history of their emancipation, the emphasis of the “prophetic” elements of the Jewish tradition, and their identification with the downtrodden. But, though understandable, Kristol wonders if Jewish attachment to leftist politics is sustainable over time. Social […]
Read MoreCapitalism and the Jews
July 18, 2016 | By: Milton Friedman
Why are Jews socialists? Nobel laureate Milton Friedman set out to explore this question in a 1972 lecture before the Mont Pelerin Society. “Jews owe an enormous debt to free enterprise and competitive capitalism,” Friedman said. And yet, “Jews have been consistently opposed to capitalism and have done much on an ideological level to undermine […]
Read MoreFoundations of a Jewish Economic Theory
July 8, 2016 | By: Yosef Yitzhak Lifshitz
What is the Jewish understanding of economic justice? Many Jews assume it is one in which property rights are limited for the purpose of redistributing wealth and lessening the economic gap between rich and poor. Indeed, Jewish thinkers have been some of the chief proponents of socialism since its inception, and socialist economic policy was […]
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