... Limited 2010 Islam Christianity Judaism National cultures History There have been a considerable number of research efforts on Zakah. The focus of most of those studies has been on the socio‐economic aspects of Zakah. However, the authors of this analysis have...

... transactions help in the economic and business development of India. Ethics India Economics Business environment History Evidences show that there were arrangements in the society to take care of all the travelers, including those with merchandise. Well‐defined systems were in place to see...

... ethics History There has been much ethical and legal debate over the intrinsic differences between various approaches to end‐of life. This debate has intensified as advances in medicine have increased longevity but also have prolonged the dying process through life‐sustaining procedures...

...John Conway O'Brien Examines the history of the Illuminated, a secret society founded by Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria, on 1 May 1776, which aimed to overthrow civil and religious institutions with the claim that the ends justify the means. Looks at Karl Marx and the links with the Illuminated's...

... in a historical setting, concluding that he was an innovator and, at the same time, a representative of the thinking of the time period. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Economics History Religion Tommaso Campanella’s (1981) The City of the Sun, a Poetical Dialogue, is considered by students...

... economic, embracing as it does meta‐history, God and men. His views are notable for their generality, their optimism in the dark pages of history, and the simple notion that all good will comes from pursuing a way to Christian polity. Saint Antonino’s first three works were concerned with religion. From...

...James E. Alvey Mainstream economists now consider their discipline to be a technical one that is free from ethical concerns. I argue that this view only arose in the twentieth century. In this paper I set out a brief history of economics as a moral science. First, I sketch the evolution...

...? Is it possible to change the Russian ethos? But these are perhaps questions for other commentators and other books. Anne   De Tinguy (Editor) . The Fall of the Soviet Empire . Boulder, CO, USA : Eastern European Monographs   1997 . 452 pp. © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> History...

... --> History Economics Germany This is volume II in a series now comprising more than half a dozen titles devoted to the history of German language‐based economics. In his editorial preface, the editor states the two purposes of the series; it aims to show that: 1. (1) The reconstruction...

... stages of the development of the cotton spinning industry, these became bankrupt before long. Under such circumstances, Tanigawa’s Spinning Company weathered many years. An examination of a brief history of Okayama Spinning Company with special reference to Tanigawa’s life history will reveal...

... History Industrial revolution Japan Politics A most interesting aspect from the viewpoint of social economics is that Japan, rather than being colonized at the time of the Western Powers’ advances in East Asia, continued as an independent nation, and subsequently was rapidly modernized...

... less antagonistic and confining. Salim   Rashid . The Myth of Adam Smith . Elgar : Cheltenham   1998 . pp. xii 227 + , ISBN: 1‐85898‐532‐3 © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Adam Smith Economics Economists History Taken in one large dose like this, Rashid′s tone...

...Evan Jones R.   Lloyd‐Jones , M.J.   Lewis . British Industrial Capitalism since the Industrial Revolution . London : UCL Press   1998 . © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Britain Capitalism Economics History Industrial performance The desire for certainty...

...Birger P. Priddat Analysing the values theories of the nineteenth century, there is a remarkable difference between German and English theories: the idea of subjective value is a very German idea, from the beginning of the nineteenth century, ignored by textbooks of the history of economic thought...

... is atemporal and universal. Social economics, on the contrary, considers the history of economic phenomena, studying the socio‐historical conditions that constitute their contextual frame. Finally, we must point out that these theoretical differences are related to diverse methodological orientations...

...Daniel J. O’Neil Alex F.   Dowlah , John E.   Elliott . The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism . Westport, Connecticut : Praeger Publishers Inc   1997 . 283 pp   £51.95 © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> History Socialism USSR One of the more interesting...

... to the present day. Concludes by looking at the possibility of future economic growth employing sustainable development and environmental economics. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Agriculture Bangladesh Environment History Social economics Thus, the ability of current agricultural systems...

... E.   Elliott . The Life and Times of Soviet Socialism . Westport, Connecticut : Praeger Publishers Inc   1997 . 283 pp , ISSN: .95 © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> History Socialism USSR One of the more interesting aspects of modern Soviet scholarship has been its...

... history are given particular attention. James M. Buchanan is not shy about applying economic theories and concepts to unusual topics in the social sciences and humanities. However, it came as somewhat of a surprise to me to find that he and Robert Tollison have applied economic theory to the supply...

...Lewis E. Hill; Eleanor T. von Ende Explains that Michael Polanyi was an internationally reputed philosopher who may be remembered as the greatest epistemologist of the twentieth century. The one aspect of his philosophy which has been neglected is his philosophy of history. Sets out to explicate...