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Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Basic Income: An Anthology of Contemporary Research presents a compilation of six decades of Basic Income literature. It includes the most influential empirical research and theoretical arguments on all aspects of the Basic ...
Exporting the Alaska model : adapting the permanent fund dividend for reform around the world
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
This book examines the feasibility of exporting the Alaska model (the Alaska Permanent Fund and the Permanent Fund Dividend) to other places and for other kinds of resources.
Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions
(University of California Press, 2011)
Why has the West developed and modernized, while the Muslim world has lagged behind? Why has democracy not found a hospitable home in much of the Muslim world? Why have the opponents of innovation found their message so ...
Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend: Examining its Suitability as a Model
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations, or regions would benefit ...
Economics Gain of Regional Agreements in the Maghreb: Deeper versus Wider Integration
(World Bank, 2010)
International trade was deeply affected by the global financial and economic crisis. Mimicking worldwide trends, imports from and exports to the Middle East and North Africa dropped significantly in 2009. This sudden decline ...
From The Divine to the Human: Survey of Metaphysics and Epistemology; a New Translation with Selected Letters
(World Wisdom, 2013)
In this synthesis of his whole message, Frithjof Schuon invites us to explore our relationship with the Divine. Covering topics as diverse as our sense of the sacred, the conditions of our existence, and the question of ...
The International Politics of the Persian Gulf
(Syracuse University Press, 2011)
For much of the contemporary history of the Middle East, the Persian Gulf has stood at the center of the region’s strategic significance. At the same time, the Gulf has been wracked by political instability and tension. ...
Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income: A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Freedom is commonly understood in two different ways: the absence of restriction or interference (scalar freedom) and the absence of slavery or oppression (status freedom). Independence, Propertylessness, and Basic Income ...
al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah fī al-mīzān : al-iqtiṣād al-siyāsī wa-al-mujtamaʻ wa-al-shuʼūn al-khārijīyah - المملكة العربية السعودية في الميزان : الاقتصاد السياسي والمجتمع والشؤون الخارجية - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Balance: Political Economy, Society, and Foreign Affairs.
(Center for Arab Unity Studies, 2012)
هذا الكتاب هو حصيلة أعمال ندوة نظّمها في العام 2004 "المعهد الدّولي لدراسة الإسلام في العالم الحديث" و مقرّه هولّندا، وقد تضمّنت أعمال النّدوة بحوثًا علمية لنخبة من السياسيين والاقتصاديين والأكاديميين العرب والأجانب، كرّست ...
Louis Massignon: The Vow and the Oath.
(Matheson Trust, 2011)
In-depth exploration of the life and thought of Louis Massignon (1883-1962), a very influential French Islamic scholar and Christian mystic. This is a translation of an original French by an expert on Massignon's life and ...