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==Price Manipulation==
==Pricing==
#One may not hoard products, or engage in any act of price manipulation.<ref>Shulchan Arukh Choshen Mishpat 231:25.</ref>  
#If one sells items by weight the scales must be exact.<ref>Shulchan Arukh Choshen Mishpat 231:1</ref>
#One may not hoard products, or engage in any act of price manipulation.<ref>Shulchan Arukh Choshen Mishpat 231:25.</ref>
See also [[Overcharging]]
 
==Fair Wages==
==Fair Wages==
# There is no halachic obligation to pay living wages (above minimum wage).<ref>Rabbi Aaron Levine in [https://books.google.com/books?id=zf7MwGclHTQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=economic+morality+and+jewish+law&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj08qnhnIXjAhUHx1kKHfKTBfkQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&f=false Economic Morality and Jewish Law] pp. 197-201</ref>
# There is no halachic obligation to pay living wages (above minimum wage).<ref>Rabbi Aaron Levine in [https://books.google.com/books?id=zf7MwGclHTQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=economic+morality+and+jewish+law&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj08qnhnIXjAhUHx1kKHfKTBfkQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&f=false Economic Morality and Jewish Law] pp. 197-201</ref>

Revision as of 17:44, 27 July 2020

Pricing

  1. If one sells items by weight the scales must be exact.[1]
  2. One may not hoard products, or engage in any act of price manipulation.[2]

See also Overcharging

Fair Wages

  1. There is no halachic obligation to pay living wages (above minimum wage).[3]
  2. A worker can't take outside work without the consent of his employer only if the outside work will cause his productivity at his job to fall below the average productivity of those who have the same job.[4]

Sources

  1. Shulchan Arukh Choshen Mishpat 231:1
  2. Shulchan Arukh Choshen Mishpat 231:25.
  3. Rabbi Aaron Levine in Economic Morality and Jewish Law pp. 197-201
  4. Rabbi Aaron Levine in Economic Morality and Jewish Law p. 203, Rabbi Aaron Levine in Free Enterprise and Jewish Law p. 57