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5 Jun 2019 Conversations with Tyler Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator
“Mishpatim is the section in the Jewish calendar. But I look at that as a Coasean, and I look at how there’s some aspects of the rewards and punishments in that area that are a little bit puzzling, and I think Coase helps me understand that.”
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…After the commandments are issued, and they’re then elaborated. Yeah, it is. It’s right after the giving of the Ten Commandments. I think it’s in . . . Mishpatim is the section in the Jewish calendar. But I look at that as a Coasean, and I look at how there’s some aspects of the rewards and punishments in that area that are a little bit puzzling, and I think Coase helps me understand that. It’s a little easier to enforce some of those restrictions and punishments from having understood Coase. And most rabbis don’t read Coase, so that’s helpful, I think. Other than that, I’m not sure what else would come to mind. But that’s tort law, basically, is what those restrictions or those commandments are about — tort law. What we would call tort law. Sure. Epstein and Coase are in the book of Exodus, I would say. Can one find classical liberalism in the Hebrew Bible?…
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