Charliehall,
Actually I have learnt more then a few Chapters of Nezikin and if you take the economic principles advanced by liberalism which in a word is “fairness’ and compare them to the economic principals codified in the Torah they are amazingly at odds.
Democaratic principals look askance at the idea of a Monopoly yet the Torah advocated the din of Hasogas Gvul which means that if a store is open cometition is not allowed to open in the area (of course this is the extremly basic law and a deeper understanding of Choshen Mishpat is needed to understand where and how it is applied.
While legally if a borowwer defaults on a loan the lender can only collect from “ziburis’ the lowest class of land Chazal raised it to “beinunis” the middle and stated expressly that the reason is becuase in order to encourage lending the compenstation must be increased in acase of default.
Now of course there is a fundemental idealogical difference between the Torah outlook and secular outlook.
Liberals have attempted and contiue to attempt to legislate “fairness”.
The Torah views “fairness’ as being the province of HKBH and man can only ensure, to the best of our abilities, that law ensures fairness of opportunity, quite similar to Conservative priciples in reality.