ABSTRACT

Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries. An Islamic model advocates a limited government confined to its natural duties of defence, justice, education, health, infrastructure, regulation, and welfare of the vulnerable population. It prohibits interest-based debt and money, and requires full liberalization of all markets including labor, financial, commodity, trade, and foreign exchange markets. The government should be Sharia-compliant in its taxation power and regulatory intervention; it ought to reduce unproductive spending in favor of productive spending.

This book is essential reading for students and academics of Islamic economics and finance, economists, practitioners, and researchers.

chapter 1|13 pages

Nature and dangers of statism

chapter 2|13 pages

The government from a Sharia perspective

chapter 3|14 pages

Sharia free market model

chapter 4|12 pages

Zakat

A mandatory redistributive principle of a Sharia model

chapter 5|16 pages

Fiscal policy from a Sharia perspective

chapter 6|21 pages

Nature of money in Sharia

chapter 7|18 pages

On the nature of inflationary financing

chapter 8|19 pages

On the nature of financial repression

chapter 9|21 pages

Sharia banking and capital markets sector

chapter 10|12 pages

A fully liberalized labor market

chapter 12|21 pages

Growth policy and private sector development

chapter |2 pages

Conclusions