The long divergence : how Islamic law held back the Middle East /

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1. autor: Kuran, Timur
Format: Książka
Język:angielski
Wydane: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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Spis treści:
  • The puzzle of the Middle East's economic retardation
  • Analyzing the economic role of Islam
  • Commercial life under Islamic rule
  • Stagnation of Islamic commercial organization
  • Constraining features of the Islamic inheritance system
  • The absence of the corporation in Islamic law
  • Barriers to the emergence of a Middle Eastern business corporation
  • Credit markets without banks
  • The Islamization of non-Muslim economic life
  • The ascent of the Middle East's religious minorities
  • Origins and fiscal impact of the capitulations
  • Foreign privileges as facilitators of impersonal exchange
  • The absence of Middle Eastern consuls
  • Did Islam inhibit economic development?