Ben Tamari

Published in 2000; updated on December 7, 2019.

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Ben Tamari (Benjamin Ephraim; בן תמרי)  was born in Jerusalem 1942, grew up in a village, served in the IDF, worked for his living as an economist for the government, and has been living in Jerusalem since 1964. He is married to Victoria (Dror) and they have a daughter, Rina (Tamari-Burshtain), and a son, Ori. He studied Economics and Philosophy. The thesis of his first book Ecometry - Foundations of Economics, was presented as a PhD thesis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Publications   Fragments   Photos

Ben Tamari Publications: Published by: Ecometry Ltd.

(1990). "Foundations of Economics." Hebrew.

Abstract: This book proposes a new way to explain and forecast economic processes. We know that forecasting in a conservative system may be done well (just like in energy and weather systems, the more closed the system, the better the forecasting). An autonomous economic system (i.e., a country) is a conservative system in Keynes space, defined as an output-money space (i.e., a market).

(1995). "Dynamic Economy." Hebrew.

Abstract: A conservative system in which rates are linearly related is a symmetric system. Symmetry dictates that the inflation rate equals the money-printing rate minus the growth rate. An empirical study of 45 countries between the years 1960 and 1993 verifies the principles of both conservation and symmetry. Tamari's theories enable good economic forecasting through formulating 'motion equations' (derived from the Lagrangian function) and their solutions (Lorentz transformations), based on the conservation and symmetry principles as described in his books.

(1997). "Conservation and Symmetry Laws and Stabilization Programs in Economics." English.

Abstract: An autonomous economic system, i.e., a country, tends to be a conservative and a symmetrical system in Keynes space (Output, Money and Time [O_t, M_t ; t]), and can therefore be represented as a complex numbers system. This presentation makes it possible to aggregate (or disaggregate) the system at all levels, from the individual to the most general aggregate (and vice versa). It also offers a simultaneous solution to the problem of allocating and distributing useful resources in the market.

Software

(2005). "Eco - Economic Simulator." softwaree.

Articles (English), Published by "The Economic Quarterly," Israel.

(1981). "Cycles, Prices and Quantities in the Israel Housing Market - Cobweb Model."   Updated March 2011.

(1983). "Gresham's Law."  Updated November 2011.

(1985). "Anatomy of a Tragedy."   Updated July 2012.

(2014)."Tamari Attractor."

Articles (Hebrew)

(1981). "Cycles, Prices and Quantities In the Israel Housing Market - Cobweb Model."   Updated March 2011

(1983). "Gresham's Law."   Updated November 2011

(1985). "Anatomy of a Tragedy."   Updated July 2012

(1986). "Theoretical and Empirical Inflation."

(1990). "Why Is There No Growth in Israel?"

(1993). "Chaos and Stocks - Review."   Updated June 2011

(1994). "Chaos in Economics."

Surveys (Hebrew)

(1981). Patinkin and the Chicago School

(1983). Money and Freedom

(1984). Is Everything is Psychology?

(1984). All that You Wanted to Say, But Don't Dare

(1985). Security and Economics in Israel

(1987). Success That is a Failure

(1989). Keynes and Batra

(1981). We Don't Want to Go On Sleeping but to Have Fun

(1981). The Cashier is Open and the Hand is Writing

(1982). Bubbles: New Innovations in Economics

(1984). Facing Reality

(1989). Three Mistakes

Responses to articles  תגובות למאמרים  (*.PDF).

(2009 - 2018). Responses English

(2003 - 2015). תגובות 1 Hebrew

(2016 - 2017). תגובות 2 Hebrew

(2018 - 2019).  3 תגובות Hebrew

(2019). רחל אליאור Hebrew. Rachel Elior (2018) "Grandmother did not Know to Read and Write", Carmel.  רחל אליאור "סבתא לא ידעה קרוא וכתוב" 2018 הוצאת כרמל

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My Fragments - From My Personal Point of View - The Complete List:

MF1:  Fractals relate to attractors like cobblestones in roads.   Added 1 January 2000.

MF2:  The Pythagorean Theorem: a² + b² = c² is the seed;  Einstein's Formula: E = MC² is the tree.
                 In the spirit of Friedrichs (1965). "From Pythagoras to Einstein," MAA.   Added 10 July 2000.

MF4:  Evolution of form is birth and death, construction and destruction, trial and error  ... 
             forever, but accompanied by a self-correcting mechanism/feedback.   Added 1 January 2003.

MF5:  The clever know the past - the wise understand the future.   Added 30 April 2007.

MF6:  Consumption and publication are physical and mental pollutions - avoid them.   Added 30 April 2007.

MF7:   Globalization + Computerization = Tsunamization.   Added 9 October 2008.

MF8:   A metaphor is a bridge from the known to the unknown.   In the spirit of Ariston.   Added 7 March 2009.

MF10:   Fractalization of the Language II.   Added 15 November 2009.

"Between any two 'points' in a set of points" or numbers, words, sentences, paragraphs, thoughts, etc.,
"we can put another point" or numbers, words, sentences, paragraphs, thoughts, etc.,
and if the set is not big enough, we can add another 'point.'

Georg Cantor and Kurt Gödel used this to prove their theorems. Of course, the trick is not just to add another 'point,' numbers, words, sentences, paragraphs, thoughts, etc., but to find a new one.

Wislawa Szymborska (2005) "Colon": "The nightmare of the poet" (trans. by Deena Land, 15 July 2010)

"An allocated number of words. Never a needless one.
Meaning - no poetry.
And no philosophy and no religion."

MF11:  Collectivization and privatization are crimes against humanity.   Added 24 July 2010.

MF12:  A metaphor is a harpoon thrown from the known into the unknown.   Added 7 August 2010.

MF13:  Mathematics is the poetry of science and poetry is the mathematics of literature.   Added 10 August 2010.

MF14:  Mathematics is a simple way to say the complicated and poetry is a complicated way to say the simple.  Added 10 August 2010.

MF15:  Poetry is dreaming while awake.   Added 10 August 2010.

MF16:   Life is an infinite/impossible mission;  death is a finite/possible mission.
               For God/Nature it is the other way around.  Added 10 August 2010.

MF17: Our words are the clothes for our soul , and our clothes are the words of our body.   Added 10 August 2010.

MF18:  A good metaphor is the cornerstone of a new theory.   Added 20 August 2010.

MF19:  He who takes the high road reaches far.    Added 14 October 2011 

MF20:  Words are clouds and mathematics is the rain.    Added 12 March 2012.

MF21: Give me a nail and I will hang my God.   In the spirit of Archimedes.   Added 1 August 2013.

MF22:  When the money illusion stops, Gresham's Law start to operate.   Added 28 July 2014.

MF23:  Behind every point there exist a whole universe,
                  to understand the universe you need to understand the point.   Added 25 January 2015.

MF24:   Life is a replacing of dreams by memories.                 לחיות זה להמיר חלומות בזכרונות.   Added 1 April 2015.

MF25:   The Earth revolves around the sun and the man revolves around his money.
                The man doesn't moves his money but his money moves him.     Added 23 April 2015.
                .הארץ נעה סביב השמש והאדם נע סביב כספו. אין האדם מגלגל כספו אלא כספו מגלגל אותו   

MF26:   Economics is physics with pricing or physics is economics without pricing.   Added 26 April 2015.