This title describes the impact economic regulation in Jewish law has on the integration of Jews into the economic fabric of societies governed by different legal systems. Factors that impede integration, as well as those that facilitate it, are identified.

Chapter 1 Profits and Prophets: Market Economics and Jewish Social Ethics -- Chapter 2 What’s So Good about the Market? -- Chapter 3 Minimum Wage/Living Wage -- Chapter 4 Immigration -- Chapter 5 Climate -- Chapter 6 Usury -- Chapter 7 Conclusion.

This paper examines the attitude of Jewish law to competition in light of the economist's understanding of the benefits of competition and of the beneficiaries from intervention in the competitive process. The punchline of this paper is simple. Although Judaism has used a whole host of...