Book Review by Dr Asad Zaman
Book: The Future of Economics: An Islamic Perspective. Markfield, Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 2000/1420.
Pp. xxvi + 446. ISBN 0-86037-276-6 (PB). ISBN 0-86037-275-8 (HB)
Abstract
An essential element of this pathbreaking work by M. Umer Chapra is the broad multidisciplinary and historically grounded approach to the subject of Islamic Economics. The book rises above many limitations of the existing works on the subject and provides an excellent basis on which a dialogue, oriented towards founding a new discipline, can be started. In particular, the book avoids presenting Islamic economics as an interesting/curious appendage to neoclassical economics, a trap which is difficult to escape since the dominant economic discourse is neoclassical.
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