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Paper currency links human effort to future benefit.
A rentier oil-export state has not only economic effects, but political, social, and cultural ones.
The logic of lower prices may be sound in theory, but price is only a number without power.
I am not deeply versed in Islamic jurisprudence, but I trust the value of my doubts when the matter relates to economic analysis.
The money supply in all three forms is governed by the central treasury’s usury on every loan.
Tamim realized that the time value of money only made the rich richer and the poor poorer.
They made its market, ruled its eras, and traded in it, enslaving people by trick or force.
Stone dirhams, yesterday and today, are only stones whose scarcity cannot be altered.
They earned from their skills in a way that sustained their needs and the city’s life.
He neither owed nor was owed; he owned his day’s food, and no one had a claim on him.