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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783550803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006

ISBN

1-280-50689-X

9786610506897

1-84544-921-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (48 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

ChoudhuryMasudul Alam <1948->

Disciplina

332/.0917/67

Soggetti

Economics

Macroeconomics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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