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Vol. 4 Issue 10 01-15 October 2009
Ibn Khaldun: Revisiting the Ideas of a Fiscal EconomistDr Sayed Afzal Peerzade and Dr Rahatunissa
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406 C.E.) is widely known as a brilliant historian, philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist. His contribution to the subject of economics is also equally significant. Unfortunately, however, his views on economic matters have not received adequate attention. Some of the seminal ideas on economic issues enunciated by Ibn Khaldun more than six centuries ago were later taken up and elaborated by the Mercantilists and the classical economists such as Sir William Petty (1623-1687), Adam Smith (1723-1790), David Ricardo (1772-1823), Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834), Karl Marx (1818-1883) and John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), as well as by many contemporary economic theorists.The principal objective of this paper is to identify and expatiate on Ibn Khaldun's contribution to one of the most important branches of economics, that is, public finance. Public finance deals with state finances in general and with taxation, public expenditure and public borrowing in particular. Continued
Has America reached the turning point in Afghanistan?By Rupert Cornwell
Barack Obama has committed America to the long haul in Afghanistan – but heavy losses and mounting dissent are forcing him to consider turning the strategy on its head.Six months after proclaiming a new commitment to the war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama is under growing pressure to make what would amount to a U-turn in US policy and scale back America's commitment to a conflict that many experts – and a majority of the public – now fear may be unwinnable. Continued
Lessons of history: Spirit of defiance lives on in a land no outsider has tamedBy Ben Macintyre
In 1992, in the presidential palace in Kabul, I interviewed Mohammed Najibullah, the brutal former secret police chief who with Soviet backing had been installed as President of Afghanistan six years earlier. A huge man, nicknamed “the Ox of Kabul”, Najibullah was politely menacing and supremely confident. Resistance by the US-backed Mujahidin was petering out, he insisted. Afghanistan would soon be a land at peace. Continued
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Reflections: Happiness and Lowered ExpectationsBy Eric Weiner
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