This book provides an overview of the practice of Islamic finance and the historical roots that define its modes of operation. The focus of the book is analytical and forward-looking. It shows that Islamic finance exists mainly as a form of rent-s...

Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises studies the causes of the current oil and global financial crisis and shows how Americaís and the worldís growing dependence on oil has created a repeating pattern of banking, currency, and energy-price crises. Unl...