History Of Economics

Philosophy of economy, or economics, is an area of inquiry concerned with economic activities, institutions, and ideas. Throughout history, thinkers have explained and theorized about the role of the governments (State) in shaping economic activities and principles. Here, we recommend reading this list of readings(English) to understand the origins and evolution of economics over the past 600 years.

John Maynard Keynes

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 

• The Means to Prosperity  

• Treatise On Money V1   

Durkheim

• The division of labor in society  

Weber

• The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism 

Adam Smith 

• The Wealth of Nations  

• An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations  

David Ricardo 

• Principles of Political Economy and Taxation 

Ibn Khaldun

• Muqaddima--Chapter on Ma`ash (En-Ar)

• Muqaddima (Ar) 

Related works:

1.     The Making of Islamic Economic Thought

2.     Labor in an Islamic Setting

3.     Medieval Islamic Economic Thought

4.     John Locke and the Origins of Private Property: Philosophical Explorations of Individualism, Community, and Equality

5.     Money in Islam: A Study in Islamic Political Economy

6.     Islamic Law and Jurisprudence: According to Hanafism

7.     Fintech in Islamic Finance

8.     Theogony and Works and Days 

9.     Discourses On Salt And Iron

10. On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity

11. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas

12. A Study of History

13. al-Muqaddima (Arabic Edition) 

14. Tareekh Ibn Khaldun

15. Principles of Economics

16. Walrasian General Equilibrium Foundations of Monetary Theory

17. A Discourse on Inequality 

18. Aristotle's "Politics"

19. Workers and Capital 

20. Intellectual Property Rights and Global Capitalism

21. Theories of Alienation