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Towards a New Paradigm for Economics


Asad Zaman


International Institute of Islamic Economics
June 28, 2005

Journal of Islamic Economics, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 49-59, 2005

Abstract:     
Current economic theory is mainly concerned with the factors which affect the wealth of nations. Issues of income distribution and elimination of poverty and deprivation are secondary. We suggest an alternative formulation which would make hunger and homelessness, and poverty in general, the central concern of economics and economists.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 7

Keywords: poverty, lexicographic utility income distribution

JEL Classification: A13

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Date posted: December 22, 2008  

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Zaman, Asad, Towards a New Paradigm for Economics (June 28, 2005). Journal of Islamic Economics, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 49-59, 2005. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1291029

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