Humanomics: Volume 13 Issue 3

MORALITY IN ECONOMICS

Rodney Wilson

Economists usually try to avoid making moral judgements, at least in their professional capacity. Positive economics is seen as a way of analysing economic problems, in as…

MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOCIO‐ECONOMIC THOUGHT: LINKS WITH GREEK AND LATIN‐EUROPEAN SCHOLARSHIP

S.M. Ghazanfar

Our purpose in this paper is three‐fold. First, we shall briefly describe what is almost a truism— that is, the classical (especially the Greek) intellectual heritage of the…

DIVERGENT DEVELOPMENT: THE PURSUIT OF LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND GROWTH IN ARGENTINA AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Lawrence R. Alschuler

Divergence in the development of East Asian and Latin American NICs is catching the attention of a growing number of political economists. This divergent development has sparked…

POVERTY ALLEVIATION: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE

AbulHasan M. Sadeq

Poverty is a global problem and the phenomenon is alarming in the third world including the Muslim Countries (MCs). This paper analyses Islam's view on poverty based on its…

SUCCESS STORY IN MALAYSIA'S DEVELOPMENT: CONVENTIONAL AND ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES

Ataul Huq Pramanik

The term success in this paper is measured by the yardstick of both material and non‐material ones. This study attempts to examine the success story behind Malaysia's development…

EQUITY VERSUS GROWTH: THE MALAYSIAN EXPERIENCE OF THE ISLAMIC FINANCIAL SYSTEM UNDER THE DUAL SYSTEMS

Muhammad Syukri Salleh, Abdul Fatah Che Hamat

In the opening speech at the International Islamic Capital Market Conference held in Kuala Lumpur recently, the Deputy Prime Minister Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim (1996: 5), referring…

THE POOR PEOPLE'S PERCEPTION OF POVERTY AND ITS IMPLICATION ON THE REALIZATION OF ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT IN KELANTAN, MALAYSIA

Muhammad Syukri Salleh, Osman, Yusoff

This paper investigates the interrelationship between the poor people's perception of poverty and its implication on Islamic development strategy based on a research in Kelantan…

GLOBALISATION AGENDA AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TOECONOMIC CO‐OPERATION AMONG THE MEMBER COUNTRIES OF THEISLAMIC CONFERENCE

A. Zeinelabdin Ahmed, Ilhan Ugurel

Although, in preparing this paper, the authors have had the chance to consult several reports and studies of the SESRTCIC that they had contributed to over the years, they would…

CRITICAL REVIEW OF PAPERS PRESENTED IN THE SESSION,COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY: CONTEMPORARY AND ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIOECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, JULY 12–14, 1996

Masudul Alam Choudhury

The papers of this session taken together can be divided into a theoretical and applied parts. There are both interconnections and differences among these two categories of…