Organization Transformation and Learning or Medieval Islamic Economic Thought

Organization Transformation and Learning: A Cybernetic Approach to Management and Organization

Author: Raul Espejo

Complexity is the core issue of organizational concern for the age we have entered, not just for the year 2000 but for the new century we are about to enter. The purpose of this book is showing, both theoretically and practically, how organizational and managerial cybernetics can contribute to this core issue. The authors offer a holistic view of both organizations and individual actions. They provide a framework to relate and organize the myriad activities natural to today's business. It offers a framework to account for organizational complexity, align strategic processes and organization structure and information systems. It also develops further the Viable System Model as a framework for organizational diagnosis and design.

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Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the Great Gap in European Economics

Author: S M Ghazanfar

This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, roughly during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, like St. Thomas Aquinas.

Table of Contents:

	Notes on contributors
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Scholastic economics and Arab scholars: the "Great Gap" thesis reconsidered	6
2	Economic thought of an Arab Scholastic: Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (AH450-505/1058-1111AD)	23
3	Economic thought and religious thought: a comment on Ghazanfar and Islahi	45
4	A rejoinder to "Economic thought and religious thought	49
5	Explorations in medieval Arab-Islamic economic thought: some aspects of Ibn Taimiyah's economics	53
6	History of economic thought: the Schumpeterian "Great Gap", the "lost" Arab-Islamic legacy and the literature gap	72
7	Understanding the market mechanism before Adam Smith: economic thought in medieval Islam	88
8	Inaccuracy of the Schumpeterian "Great Gap" thesis: economic thought in medieval Iran (Persia)	108
9	Explorations in medieval Arab-Islamic economic thought: some aspects of Ibn Qayyim's economics (AH691-751/1292-1350AD)	127
10	Medieval Islamic socio-economic thought: links with Greek and Latin-European scholarship	142
11	Post-Greek/pre-Renaissance economic thought: contributions of Arab-Islamic Scholastics during the "Great Gap" centuries	159
12	The economic thought of Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali and St Thomas Aquinas: some comparative parallels and links	184
13	Early medieval Islamic economic thought: Abu Yousuf's (731-798AD) economics of public finance	209
14	Public-sector economics in medieval economic thought: contributions of selected Arab-Islamic scholars	228
15	Medieval social thought European Renaissance: the influence of selected Arab-Islamic Scholastics	245
	Bibliography	261
	Index	276