Social and economic issues on money and real economy relations : perspectives from Islamic economics and finance / editor: Masudal Alam Choudhury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-

Series:

Humanomics: the international journal of systems and ethics ; v. 35, no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Macroeconomics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This e-book on Islamic Perspectives of Social Financing brings together selected papers on the nature of the Islamic financial system, the concept of social capital, and thereby of social goods and social money that are part and parcel of the ethical market transformation in the Islamic economy. A paper contrasts the fractional reserve requirement monetary system and its structure based primarily on fiat money with the conception and functions of money in the Islamic economy supported by the gold standard. This perspective beckons the strong case of a return to the gold standard, which prior t

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Editorial; Does the Islamic financial system design matter?; Part I: Seigniorage of fiat money and the maqasid al-Shari'ah: the unattainableness of the maqasid; Social accounting in Islamic political economy; Announcement

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-50689-X

9786610506897

1-84544-921-5

OCLC:

69651497