Editorial

Citation

Alam Choudhury, M. (2006), "Editorial", Humanomics, Vol. 22 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/h.2006.12422caa.001

Editorial

The pot pourri of papers in diverse fields address a common theme, namely those of stabilization and sustainability as twin characters of the national and global order. These are important notes for an ethico-economic critical thinking along lines of the project of Humanomics. The end goal of human sustainability through the combined forces of economic, market, political and social forces is to attain abiding wellbeing as a criterion goal for human development. The papers presented discuss certain aspects of this sustainability goal in diverse ways and within diverse themes.

Some papers have examined the failure of Muslims countries in bringing about Islamic socioeconomic transformation despite the much talked about prospects of Islamic banking and global development in Islamic countries. The failures are pointed upon the ignorance and misconceptions regarding Islamic changes and institutional developments in such countries. The prospect for a new Islamic criterion of thought is called upon as a normative agenda. It is still simply a calling that will require the will of Muslim Governments. The combination of the two oppositely thinking papers on this front shows that there are structural problems of reformation in Islamic countries to define a new vision of globalization and economic integration of her own kind, those that could be different from the capitalist globalization of these days.

Masudul Alam Choudhury