Exclusive writings on the contribution of Ibn Khaldun to economics in the English language have not been many, the references to his work also remain scanty and far between. Even in what little is available mostly authors talk about his views on professions, markets and the cloud he castes on...

Over 100 years since Marx's value theory of labour was first published, the so-called quot;transformation problemquot; -- deriving prices from values and providing a theory of profits as arising from surplus value -- has inspired the imagination of economist of all shades of intellectual...