Publications

Everything I have published, most recent first, with a link to a copy wherever one exists. Work currently under way is listed at the top. To update, see Updates

Also on SSRN, Google Scholar, ResearchGate and Academia.

Work in progress

  • Agentic Causality: The Acquisition of Causal KnowledgeUnder review
  • An Islamic Approach to Macroprudential RegulationRevise and resubmit, Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics
  • The Gold Dinar Debate Reframed: Moving Beyond Slogans to Monetary ArchitectureUnder review
  • Agent Based Models: A New Approach to EconomicsTextbook in preparation

Items move into the list below as they appear in print.

Books

Articles and chapters

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  • “The Rise and Fall of Market Economies,” Review of Islamic Economics, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2010. Reprinted as Chapter 2 of Civilization and Values: Open Civilization – Istanbul Approach, eds. M. Yalçıntaş, I. Kurulay and R. Şentürk, Istanbul: ICOC, pp. 140–178.
  • “Islamic Economics: A Survey of the Literature,” Religion and Development Working Paper 22, University of Birmingham, 2008. Published in three parts: Part I, Islamic Studies 48:3 (2009), pp. 395–424; Part II, Islamic Studies 48:4 (2009), pp. 525–566; Part III, Islamic Studies 49:1 (2010), pp. 37–63.Originally a working paper of the Religions and Development Research Programme, University of Birmingham; later revised into the 2025 book Islamic Economics: The Polar Opposite of Capitalist Economics
  • (with Esfandiar Maasoumi and Mumtaz Ahmed) “Tests for Structural Change, Homogeneity, and Aggregation,” Economic Modelling, Vol. 27, 2010, pp. 1382–1391.
  • “Causal Relations via Econometrics,” International Econometric Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2010.
  • (with Sidika Basci and Arzdar Kiraci) “Variance Estimates and Model Selection,” International Econometric Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2010.
  • (with Saima Mahmood) “Monetary and Non-Monetary Gift Exchange,” Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, Winter 2010.
  • “Scarcity: East and West,” Journal of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance, Vol. 6, No. 1, January–March 2010.
  • “Anti-Poverty Policies and Anti-Poor Philosophies,” Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2, July–December 2010.

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Comments, reviews and editorial notes

  • “Summary of The Great Transformation by Polanyi,” WEA Commentaries, Vol. 13, No. 1, July 2023, pp. 2–3.
  • “How to Inspire and Motivate Students,” WEA Commentaries, Vol. 8, No. 1, February 2018, pp. 2–5.
  • “Microeconomics: An Islamic Approach,” WEA Commentaries, Vol. 7, No. 5, October 2017, p. 12.
  • (with Jack Reardon) Foreword to Special Issue on the Challenge of Islamic Economics, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2015, pp. 313–323.
  • “Hunger as the Primary Economic Problem,” World Economics Association Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 2015, p. 10.Earlier draft, “The First Fundamental Economic Problem: Feeding the Hungry”
  • Review of House of Debt by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2013. [full text]
  • Review of The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. von Hayek, Journal of Islamic Business and Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2013. [full text]
  • Editor’s Introduction, International Econometric Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2010.
  • Editor’s Introduction, International Econometric Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 2009.
  • “In Memoriam: David Freedman (5 March 1938 – 17 October 2008),” International Econometric Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 2009.
  • Comments on “Contributions of the Last Six Conferences” by Munawar Iqbal, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference in Islamic Economics, 2008, pp. 109–114.
  • Comments on “Obstacles to Research in Islamic Economics” by M. Nejatullah Siddiqui, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference in Islamic Economics, 2008, pp. 15–18.
  • Comments on “The Mahbub ul Haq Memorial Lecture: Social Capital and Economic Development — Lessons from Pierre Bourdieu” by Ali Khan, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 44, No. 4, Winter 2005, pp. 390–396.
  • Comments on “The Mahbub ul Haq Memorial Lecture: On Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, Sixty Years Later” by Ali Khan, 20th Annual General Meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists, Islamabad, 10–12 January 2005.
  • Comments on “The Supply and Demand for Exports of Pakistan: The Polynomial Distributed Lag Model (PDL) Approach” by Zeshan Atique and Mohsin Hasnain Ahmed, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, Winter 2003.
  • Comments on “Population Pressure, Savings, Investment and Growth in the Islamic World: Some Empirical Evidence” by Hossein Pirasteh and Farzad Karimi, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance, Bahrain, 21–23 April 2003.
  • Comments on “Testing Semi-strong Form Efficiency of Stock Market” by Salman Syed Ali and Khalid Mustafa, Pakistan Development Review, Vol. 40, No. 4, Winter 2001, pp. 672–674.
  • Review of The Future of Economics: An Islamic Perspective by M. Umer Chapra, Islamic Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring 2001.
  • Review of Islam, Poverty, and Income Distribution by Ziauddin Ahmed, Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford University Press, January 1993.

Unpublished papers

Last updated September 2026.