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By 2003, there was a total of 176 Islamic banks around the globe with their total assets close to $147 billion. This article shows that this form of specialized banking may help in promoting growth in these developing economies. During the transition phase of a developing growth economy to a...
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pioneered the area of micro‐foundation of macro‐economics. The great missing link in economic theory, both of micro‐economics … and macro‐economics, is the inability to methodologically integrate ethical and moral values through preference mapping …
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Distributional issues have re‐emerged as an important issue in economics, social science, and philosophy in the last … world has been (re)asserted, developing an incipient Judeo‐Christian economics. Methodologically, this undertaking is … comparable to that underlying the evolution of Islamic and other forms of religious economics. The methodology employed in the …
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During the first decades of the 20th century, German Reformer Silvio Gesell (1862‐1930) championed with a certain success the reforming wave of the epoch by complementing ingenious solutions to some of the most important economic issues of his time with theoretical insights that were as...
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Purpose – This paper aims to show the interrelation and relevancy of the concept and theory of cultural lag to social justice. The conception of social justice, though wide in scope, is applied in this paper to the limited domain of equality of opportunity and fairness with respect to income...
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Purpose – In the Western world the voices calling for a secular society have grown ever louder over the last three centuries. This paper seeks to return to one of the founders of modernity for guidance. Adam Smith advocated globalization on economic and moral grounds....
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of the social economy that was published by the International Journal of Social Economics in fall 1998. This author is … significant for what they teach about the premises employed in economics. His own philosophy of the human person reinforces the … four premises of personalist economics more so than the premises of the mainstream and challenges the mainstream at its …
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/methodology/approach – Using economic analysis, this paper outlines and illustrates the basis of the economics of parental discrimination against … West Bengal and in Orissa in Kondh‐dominated village to determine the extent to which economics explains parental …
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(or economics) as the true science of man.  …
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Purpose – The paper aims to explicate the systematic creation of social and ecological scarcities within an absolutely monetised economy and derives the necessity to change the “rules of the game” for doing business towards sustainability. Therefore, a model of human behaviour is developed...
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