Modern Economic Theory in the Talmud
Robert Aumann demonstrates the sophistication of Talmudic thought; he shows how the Talmud and its commentators articulated economic principles millennia before modern economists.moder
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Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician, who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics with Thomas C. Schelling, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Aumann’s primary contribution to economics involved the analysis of repeated noncooperative encounters, a subject in the mathematical discipline of game theory. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
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