This article examines how the politics of occupation in Iraq increased the likelihood of religious values shaping the future of the Iraqi state more than secular ideologies. The debate that surrounded drafting of the new Iraqi constitution demonstrated the prominent role religion will play in...

This article investigates the expansion of the scope of economics in the 1960s. We show that the public policy problems raised by the issue of poverty reinforced the expansion, as economists became progressively involved in the social issues of the day. Until the early 1960s, poverty was a...

Economics, and other fields of social science are often criticized as unscientific for their apparent failures to formulate universal laws governing human societies. Whether economics is truly a science is one of the oldest questions. This paper attempts to create such universal laws, and...

The existing literature on Islamic economics has not undergone any of the processes of verification or falsification. It is mostly restatement of the postulates as found in the Qur'an or hadith. The literature on methodology of Islamic economics is either superfluous, or ambiguous or confusing....

What determines the kinds of questions economists ask and the answers they find convincing? More generally, why are the institutions that constitute scholarly economics the way they are? I answer both of these questions by positing that within the modern economics profession, it is plausible...

In dialog with an well-known and controversial book of two French economists (Cahuc and Zylberberg (2016)), we propose, in this article, to point out the mirage implied in attempts to consider economics as the “physics of the social sciences”. Given the availability of large datasets and the...

This paper aims to motivate people to invest in the Islamic banks and improving Islamic economy in the country, and solve the problems that affect the ordinary financial and economic system, organizing our financial and economic activities through the Islamic bank. The researchers conclude many...

The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes – it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological origins of this field, and it is forward-looking in that it examines the insights and research themes that...

It is estimated that only 5% of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a peculiar situation, we build a theoretical model of the musicians’ labour market in which we embed the main institutional features of the Italian system. We notice how the presence...