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July 22, 2017
by Moshe
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“How Butter beats the Guns” is published ב”ד

After years of hysterical or totally senseless reviews and editors’ reactions we got from economic journals we had switched to military ones. Now we have got this very important for us publication in the Czech military Journal “Defence and Strategy” … Continue reading

July 20, 2017
by Moshe
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There are Judges in … Tel Aviv

Rabbinic court in Tel Aviv created precedent revitalizing “fault divorce” at least in the most severe cases of  misbehavior of “privileged” spouse. The problem is, the precedent comes too late. The machinery of governmental crowding out the man from the … Continue reading

December 18, 2016
by Moshe
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Rediscovered Tradition of Government intervention

Gil Ronen’s just have penned his new  article: worth to read! Pay attention to the author’s reference on archaic tradition of governmental intervention in family issues, “rediscovered” for civilized world by Marx, extensively used by Stalin and Hitler. For ours … Continue reading

November 6, 2016
by Moshe
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The Torah as the source of economic freedom and its sustainability

At first glance, the Torah does not address the issues of economic and social order (surely, it does not discuss distinctions between free capitalist and socialist approaches). Talmudic sources, occasionally restricting economic freedom, often reflected realities of communities which survived … Continue reading

October 17, 2016
by Moshe
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Mordechai Kedar: The Hope, not Despair causes Terror

Professor Mordechai Kedar (the article is in Hebrew) compares level of terrorism provided from Yaffo, Haifa and East Jerusalem. He arrives to the same conclusions, our paper is reasoning on the basis of Israel and international experience.  Haifa and Yaffo … Continue reading

September 3, 2016
by Moshe
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Will the West Survive Until 2084? Israel perspective – updated version

Updated (edited) versions of previously published book are just uploaded The book approaches and ideas is developed and promoted in the Israel by the brochure “Will the West Survive until 2084? On the problems and Perspectives of the Family, Private … Continue reading

May 29, 2016
by Moshe
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One Year of Government 34 of Israel: Leading Parties’ Positions on Key Issues

Fourteen months has passed since the day of elections and more than one year since Government 34 of Israel has been sworn in 14 May, 2015 – long enough for the various political parties to demonstrate their readiness to live … Continue reading

May 22, 2016
by Moshe
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Prague Conference on Political Economy: explaining Nanny State rise

Sergei Zhavoronkov and Kirill Rodionov have presented the report  “Nanny State: few notes on origin and political machine” at Prague Conference on Political Economy.  The paper develops and upgrades  previous researches:  Universal Suffrage: Undeclared Conflict of Interest and   The Puzzle of … Continue reading

March 21, 2016
by Moshe
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Kill hope, prevent terrorism

The new paper is uploaded at SSRN: To Kill Hope? In Search of a Reliable Strategy to Fight Terrorism Nor does history of Israel suggest any reasonable expectation that terrorists will be appeased by concessions of any kind, whether transfer of … Continue reading

January 4, 2016
by Moshe
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ONS (Social Sciences and Contemporary World) Journal 2015 Content

The leading Russian Social science interdisciplinary Journal “Obshestvennye nauki i sovremennost” (ONS, Social Sciences and Contemporary World) kindly provided us the Journal’s 2015 Content. Among the key issues covered by the Journal’s articles’ authors – discussion on Social Liberalism, Russian society … Continue reading