Chapter One. The Talmud, Its Method And Related Issues

Ohrenstein, Roman A.; Gordon, Benjamin D.

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004174627.i-234.7

Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature 2009

DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004174627.i-234.7

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Chapter One. The Talmud, Its Method And Related Issues

Roman A. Ohrenstein¹,

Benjamin D. Gordon²

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“…2 2 For further information about the Talmud, see Roman A. Ohrenstein (2003), “The Talmud, Its Methods and Related Issues,” in Economic Analysis in Talmudic Literature (New York: Vantage Press, 2003: 3–25); Boaz Cohen, “Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature,” in The Jewish People: Past and Present (New York: Jewish Encyclopedic Handbooks, 1952: 69); Moses Mielziner, Introduction to the Talmud (New York: Block, 1967). …”

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The Talmudic Doctrine of “The Benefit of a Pleasure”: Psychological Well‐Being in Talmudic Literature

Ohrenstein¹

2007

American J Econ Sociol

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In this article, we attempt to analyze the Talmudic notion of well-being in the light of modern hedonic psychology. First, we examine the thoughts of Hebrew "wisdom" and Greek "sophia" concerning the phenomenon of happiness. We then discuss the Talmudic doctrine of "optimality," a concept similar to that of the Pareto improvement. This is followed by a discourse deemed to be of extraordinary significance-the idea of "mutual benefit," which may be described as "super optimum." Thereafter, the doctrine of the "Benefit of a Pleasure" is demonstrated to be a "pleasure-measure" of reciprocal and nonreciprocal happiness. Finally, it is argued, that although Plato, according to Professor Lowry, detailed precise "tradeoffs" between degrees of pleasure, pain, and time, it was applied to "moral values" only, whereas the Talmudists posited the existence of a "psychoeconomic" category, in which pleasure itself is equated with money.

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