Modern finance has become a very complicated field, which raises many questions about its economic and social mission. Many bankers' ignorance of complex knowledge and care for the future are hostile ingredients that transform the markets' volatility, through spillover effects, into economic and...

Any economic paradigm is in some way based on a certain value premise. The Islamic one considers that the main actor, the individual, does not have as a goal the maximising of the output that needs to be realized, in the shape of the wealth or of the individual consuming. The individual is not...

Using different hypothesis and empiric demonstrations of some well-known economists in this domain, the period between 1500-1750, in which appeared the recrudescence of the protestant paradigm of capitalism, try to be considered the explanation by which, at least in the analised period of time,...

The purpose of the working paper is to chart the role of religion (the most important part of the culture) and its possibilities of benefiting the economy and society. The aim is to find out how religious competence and economic activities are linked together, how do these elements interact at...

Recently, more and more use is made from book production as a measure of the long-run development of human capital. However, its relation with technology and growth is often found to be small and changing over time. In this paper we try to establish the link between book production and the...