Meir Tamari (Hebrew: מאיר תמרי; 1927–2021) was an economist and author whose work is in the field of Jewish business ethics.
[citation needed] 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.
Ultimately, Tamari "created a special course that would attempt to present to the students this value system and its practical application to economics".
[citation needed] These courses helped Tamari to lay the foundations of his approach to Jewish business ethics.
In 1987, Tamari published With All Your Possessions: Jewish Ethics and Economic Life based on the Bar Ilan University course.
In 1992, Tamari founded the Center for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, on the campus of the Jerusalem College of Technology.
[4] Tamari's approach to business ethics is characterized by integration and harmonization of the various aspects of Jewish economic activity.
[citation needed] According to Tamari, despite Judaism's insistence on economic justice, charity, and mutual assistance, it also recognizes the legitimacy of private property, the profit motive and the market mechanism.