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Dr. Meir Tamari (born 1927) is an economist and author. He is a seminal figure in the field of Jewish business ethics and was among the first individuals to give university courses, write scholarly works, and establish study centers in this field. ==Biography== Meir Tamari was born Leopold Fagov in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1927, and graduated from the University of Cape Town with a degree in economics in 1948.〔Meir Tamari, ''Some International Comparisons of Industrial Financing'', Technicopy Ltd. Gloucestershire UK 1977 p. v.〕 Tamari was an active member of the Zionist Bnei Akiva youth group, and in 1950 he joined other members of this group in moving to Israel. At first he settled in Kfar Darom, moving soon afterwards to Kibbutz Shluchot.〔(South African Jewish Genealogy )〕 (It was from the palm—Hebrew ''tamar''—trees in Shluchot that Tamari coined his Hebrew name.)〔Personal communication〕 In 1960 Tamari became an economist at the Bank of Israel, attaining the status of Senior Economist in 1967. He was responsible for the bank's Corporate Finance Project, analyzing the economic characteristics of manufacturing firms. This study attracted international attention. In 1971 Tamari served as a special consultant to the UK Royal Commission on Small Firms, and later he was invited by the French ''Centre national de la recherche scientifique'' (CNRS) to make a comparison of corporate financial patterns in various countries. This research formed the basis of his doctoral thesis at the City University of London, which granted him a Ph.D. in 1976. The thesis was later published as a book, Some International Comparisons of Industrial Financing.〔Meir Tamari, ''Some International Comparisons of Industrial Financing'', Technicopy Ltd. Gloucestershire UK 1977 p. v.〕 Subsequently Tamari served as Senior Lecturer in Economics at Bar Ilan University. Bar Ilan defines itself as a religious Jewish university, but Tamari was disturbed by the seeming disconnect between the Jewish and academic identities of the school and its students. He writes: "Although the university is an Orthodox Jewish institution, I found myself teaching course in corporate finance in exactly the same way I would have done in any other university in the world, with the content completely divorced from a Jewish value system."〔Meir Tamari,With All Your Possessions, p. xi〕 He began to introduce more Jewish sources and content into his economics courses, in order to emphasize that Jewish tradition adopts a particular ethical approach to economic issues and problems. Ultimately Tamari "created a special course that would attempt to present to the students this value system and its practical application to economics".〔Meir Tamari,With All Your Possessions, p. xi〕 This was the first, or among the first, accredited business ethics course ever offered in any Israeli institution of higher learning. These courses helped Tamari to lay the foundations of his unique approach to Jewish business ethics. He also began an intensive lecture schedule to lay audiences worldwide on the topic of Jewish Business Ethics. In 1987 Tamari published his landmark work, ''With All Your Possessions: Jewish Ethics and Economic Life''. The book, based on the Bar Ilan University course, is still in print after 20 years. This was followed in 1995 by ''The Challenge of Wealth: A Jewish Perspective on Earning and Spending Money'', ''Al Chet: Sins in the Marketplace'' in 1996, and ''Jewish Values in our Open Society: A Weekly Torah Commentary'' in 2000. In 1992, Tamari founded the ''Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility'', on the campus of the Jerusalem College of Technology. He continues to serve as the honorary Head of the Center. Today the center is known as the Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem. Meir Tamari lives in a suburb of Jerusalem with his wife Devora. He continues an active schedule of writing and lecturing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meir Tamari」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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