What is going on? (Shelach Lecha 5780)
Download the accompanying Family Edition here! In March 2020, whilst launching a new book,[1] I took part in a BBC … Read more
Tag: economics
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times – UK launch events
Rabbi Sacks’ new book Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times is out on 12th March 2020 in the UK. It … Read more
We must use God’s gifts to lessen the suffering of humankind (Thought for the Day)
I couldn’t help but notice the headline in yesterday’s paper: “Losing your religion can be seriously good for your wealth.” … Read more
Jews and Economics (Mikketz 5778)
We know that Jews have won a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes: over twenty per cent of them from a … Read more
The Economics of Liberty (Behar 5775)
The most surprising best-selling book in 2014 was French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century[1] – a dense … Read more
It is the end of a dangerous moral experiment
The banking scandals, rate fixing and resignations may have a silver lining if they awaken us to a fact about … Read more
Calvinism and Capitalism
Here is the problem. To avoid recession we have to give the economy a boost, which means spending more, which … Read more
Once a year for ten days we do a kind of moral stocktaking
News continues about the crisis in the Eurozone, and the massive bail-out, measured in trillions of Euros, to prevent … Read more
Without a shared moral code there can be no freedom in our society
Sub-prime mortgages, financial collapse, MPs expenses: these and other recent scandals are more than mere passing events. They have left … Read more
