Social Capital and Risk Sharing: An Islamic Finance Paradigm

by Adam Ng, Mansor H. Ibrahim, Abbas Mirakhor, et al.

One of the few books to view social capital from a religious perspective, Social Capital and Risk Sharing fills an important gap in finance literature. It presents a vision of a socio-economic framework discernible from the Qur'an and explores the consequences of compliance with the rules of this framework. By integrating distributive justice, rules of behavior, stock market development, economic growth, and social finance under a common theme, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137476044
• ISBN13: 9781137476043
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"