Carmel Chiswick

Economics of American Judaism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent developments in the application of economic theory to the analysis of religion have provided important insights into hitherto-neglected economic aspects of religious behavior and the structure of religious communities. This book on the economics of Judaism fills a blind spot in the social scientific study of Jews in America. The sociological literature and conventional wisdom both agree on the centrality of economic experience to Jewish life, as it is to any group. Economic topics such as income, immigration, education, occupational structure and mobility, asset accumulation and changes in family structure are central features of the American Jewish experience about which economics has much to say, yet until now, there has been no general treatment of these subjects incorporating economic analysis. The book rectifies this omission.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415701570
• ISBN-10: 0415701570
• Artikelnr.: 25006952

Autorenporträt

Carmel U. Chiswick is Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Overview 1. Introduction 2. First Approach: The Economics of American
Judaism 3. A Retrospective: The Economics of American Judaism Immigrants
4. The Economics of Jewish Immigrants and Judaism in the United States 5.
Economic Transformation of American Jewry (with Barry R. Chiswick)
Marriage and the Family 6. The Economics of Contemporary American Jewish
Family Life 7. Determinants of Religious Intermarriage: Are Jews Really
Different? Jewish Continuity 8. An Economic Perspective on Religious
Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio 9. The
Cost of Living Jewishly and Jewish Continuity (with Barry R. Chiswick) 10.
The Economics of Jewish Continuity Israel and American Jewry 11. Impact of
the Six-Day War on American Jewry: An Economic Perspective 12. Israel and
American Jewry in the Year 2020: An Economic Analysis 13. Immigrant Impacts
on Israel's Labor Force: Implications for Economic Development