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Bruce Heitler
Bruce Heitler was born in Denver, CO, educated at Yale, Cal Berkeley (City Planning) and Yale Law School. He was one of the founders of Congregation Kohelet. In business, he has developed affordable infill housing, and acted as Chairman of the Board of the Lowry Redevelopment Authority. He has been a student and teacher of Jewish philosophy for 30 years.
A Talmudic Saint Takes on Cost/Benefit Analysis
A Talmudic Commentary on Market Interventions
- Saturday 4:30PM–5:45PM Windwood
Tractate Ta'anit of the Babylonian Talmud portrays a series of Jewish "saints". One of these, R. Huna, had sufficient wealth to undertake market interventions, and he shows the hazards of trying to help the poor by intervening in markets. As our government confronts the current "trillion dollar meltdown", a saintly approach to the hazards of market intervention seems particularly timely.