New (2016)

1. Section in Vision 2025: Values and Ethics in Development. -- revised for global and secular audienc, and to be published in Real World Economics Review with new title: Evaluating the Costs of Growth.

   1. Wealth as an Indicator of Socio Economic Development: Islamic Views. Joint paper with Atiq-ur-Rahman Kashmiri, and Arif Naveed. Prepared for IDB/IRTI workshop on "Developing a Framework for Maqasid al-Shariah based Index of Socio-Economic Development" Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 30 April 2014

   2. Building Genuine Islamic Financial Institutions. Paper to be presented at seminar under the title “Economics and Ethics” organized by the Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics in Doha on the 10-12 of June 2014.

Presentations (with Audio)

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Introduction to Statistics

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Featured Articles

CALL FOR PAPERS: A special issue of International Journal for Pluralism in Economic Education (IJPEE) with guest editors Dr. Asad Zaman & Dr Abbas Mirakhor -- Title; The Challenge of Islamic Economics"

Posts in WEA Pedagogy Blog

• 1. Talk on "Relevance of Islamic Knowledge Today," at Hast-o-Neest, Lahore

  2. Methodological Mistakes and Econometrics Consequences. Talk given at Nurturing Minds Seminar at PIDE on 6th February. Shows that current econoemtric methodology is fundamentally flawed. Real World Economic Review Blog Post about this article provides some details.

  3. Research Opportunities Created by Collapse of Logical Positivism. The rise and fall of logical positivism is one of the most spectacular stories of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, many social sciences continue to base their methodology on failed philosophy of logical positivism. We will point out five specific dimensions where postivist methodology is seriously mistaken, and show how new directions and dimensions for research of fundamental importance to current problems are created by correcting these mistakes.

1. Capitalism in Crisis -- PPT with Audio. The talk shows how capitalism arose as a consequence of a social experiment in West. Greed and Avarice became socially acceptable, which led to the crisis. Solutions cannot be found until these social norms change.

2. Farewell Lecture to IIIE Students -- delivered on Thursday 2nd January at 12:30 in Habibi Restaurant, F8 Merkez. 50 minutes. How we can make best use of our unique and precious lives, the only opportunity given to us to know God.

3. Alternate Economic Systems for the Twenty First Century. Talk explains how and why current economic theories and systems built on them have failed, and how we can replace them with better economic systems.

4. Macro-Prudential Regulations in an Islamic Framework. This talk shows that Islam offers a three dimensional framework for regualtion which covers aspects not within scope of conventional approaches. It includes, social, spiritual and instititutional components.