In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s,...

Purpose This paper aims to explain the nature of the economic agent in Islamic economics. He is commonly referred to as Homo Islamicus. Design/methodology/approach This is done by deriving the concept from the Qurʾān as the primary epistemological source in Islamic economics. The paper, thus,...

Der Sozialstaat ist das Ergebnis eines stets von neuem herzustellenden Kompromisses zwischen unterschiedlichen sozialen Interessen. Er hat funktional soziale Herausforderungen aufgegriffen und sich von seinen residualen Anfängen aus zu einem umfassenden System der sozialen Daseinsfürsorge...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction: The Argument in Brief -- Part One. Neglected Realm of Social Scarcity -- Part Two. The Commercialization Bias -- Part Three. The Depleting Moral Legacy -- Part Four. Perspective and Conclusions -- References -- Index