Humanomics: Volume 31 Issue 1

Land management in the Conata Basin: a free market approach

Joseph Bahun, Walter E. Block

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the viability of free market environmentalism. This is the philosophy that has as its basic premise the view that laissez faire…

The problems facing the agricultural sector in Nigeria and the prospect of Muzara’ah and supply chain model

Nafiu Olaniyi Oladokun, Moussa Larbani, Mustafa Omar Mohammed

– The purpose of this paper is to develop a Muzara’ah–supply chain model for the purpose of enhancing agricultural financing and productivity in Nigeria.

Theoretical and trustees’ perspectives on the establishment of an Islamic social (Waqf) bank

Mohammad Tahir Sabit Haji Mohammad

This paper aims to present an alternative to current banking systems. The purpose of the paper is the optimisation of the concept of cash waqf and its management in the framework…

Individual and society in an Islamic ethical framework: Exploring key terminologies and the micro-foundations of Islamic economics

Hafas Furqani

The paper aims to produce new key terminologies for the microfoundations of Islamic economics. The paper attempts to investigate the microfoundations of Islamic economics by…

Free market madness and human nature

Necati Aydin

This paper aims to discuss the crises of free market capitalism in terms of its understanding of human nature. It reveals how recent market madness can be attributed to certain…

Dialogue between the formal and the informal sector in open innovations at the grassroots’ level

Stuti Saxena

Whereas a lot of emphasis has been placed on the open innovations (Chesbrough, 2003, von Hippel, 2005) and their implications in the formal sector, this paper purports to fill the…

Efficiency, productivity and Islamic banks: an application of DEA and Malmquist index

Muhammad Abbas, Rayan S Hammad, Mohamed Fathy Elshahat, Toseef Azid

This paper aims to compute the Malmquist Index of Islamic and conventional banks to compare their performance in the sample period of 2005-2009. Islamic banks have been showing…