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UPCOMING EVENTS
14 January 2008, 20:00
Student Seminar: "Civil Liberties vs. Security"
Corinne Sauer, Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies
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8 February 2009, 19:00
Public Lecture: "The End of the Cold War and the Rise of 'Catastrophism' "
Daniel Wolf, Executive Director, First Circle Films, UK
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19 March 2009, 19:00
Public Lecture: "Farmers to Merchants: Religion, Human Capital, and
Jewish History (1-1492 CE)"
Professor Zvi Eckstein, Tel Aviv University,
Department of Economics and Deputy Governor at the Bank of Israel
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Nobel Laureate Aumann says that Judaism subscribes to
a market philosophy and contains
important lessons for solving today's economic woes
Nobel Laureate Economist Professor Robert (Yisrael) Aumann clarified for the first
time how he sees the link between Economics, Judaism and the current economic
downturn. In the inaugural lecture of the Center for the Study of Judaism and Economics
at the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, Professor Aumann reminded us that
Economics is based on incentives, and only when people and firms have the right
incentives to work and produce can the economy grow and prosper. |
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Israel's economic freedom ranking drops to 76.
Last year it was 44.
Israel ranks 76th in the world in terms of economic freedom according to the
Economic Freedom of the World: 2008 Annual Report, released today by the Jerusalem
Institute for Market Studies (JIMS). The setback is substantial since Israel ranked 44th
in last year's report.
While other countries in the world have become freer over the past year,
Israel has suffered from more regulation and an ever growing public sector.
Israel's very poor ranking this year is mainly due to the severe drop in one component -
government enterprises and investment- this component measures the extent to which
countries use private rather than government enterprises to produce goods and services.
This component is published by the IMF's Government Finance Statistics electronic data.
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 56.7%
agree the IDF should outsource non-core activities
A new survey reveals that the majority of the Jewish population in Israel supports
the idea of a "smaller and smarter" IDF, but is not yet willing to let go of the
"people's army."
The Israel Panel Study of Opinion Dynamics (IPSOD), a new national survey commissioned
by the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS), contained a special section on
the recent changes taking place within the IDF, such as the reduction in days of reserve
duty, the increase in draft dodging, and the outsourcing of non core military activities
to the private sector.
The results of the survey clearly show that the majority of
Israelis support the idea of a smaller and smarter army but within a people's army
framework.
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