The Islamic world-system : a study in polity-market interaction

Contents : A theory of the Islamic world-system -- A formal model of the Islamic world-system -- An evaluation of the occidental world-system -- A general systems theory of knowledge : application to family and ecology -- The world-system according to Ibn Khaldun's prolegomena comparatively viewed -- The Islamic political economy of property and property rights : concepts and application -- Micro-money : Islamic perspective -- An overlapping generation valuation model with debt-equity swaps -- A knowledge model of layers of techniques.