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The dichotomy of the capitalism lies in the misplacement of ‘man’ and ‘money’.
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Islam’s main concern is the materialistic world surrounding human beings.
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Social sciences mainly deal with the inner elements of human beings and slightly about material environment.
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What we expect from ‘MAQASID AL-SHARIAH’ (OBJECTIVES OF ISLAMIC LAW) are for our own pleasure.
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Co-operation in Islam is pivotal because of fruits of collective wisdom goes beyond that of individuals separately.
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From Islamic perspective, ‘labor’ the same as ‘effort’ and we can use them interchangeably.
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Conventional Banking relies on the potentialities of debt but Islamic Banking on the limited capacity of Musharakah (equity financing).
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‘the character of incentive systems’ is one of the axes to compare economic systems?
Questão 9
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Islamic economic system has three pillars consisting of justice as the ultimate goal, co-operation, and efficiency
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In capitalistic economic system goal does not justify means.
Questão 11
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Suppose there are 13 commodities in a primitive society, there are 78 different exchange rates.
Questão 12
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In a society we have six commodities: K, L, M, N, R, and Q. Commodity K has been chosen as the medium of exchange. The exchange rate between M and R is:
(M)/(R) ÷ (K)/(R)
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There are many authorities who are delegated to brand the medium of exchange (ME) on behalf of their constituencies.
Questão 14
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As soon as ssfish plays its role as the medium of exchange it does vanish from economic system and can be consumed.
Questão 15
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In current economic system, it is not possible for the Central Bank (CB) to increase the nominal value of a paper money by ten times unless incurring prohibitively high cost.
Questão 16
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Any additional cost of increasing the nominal value of a paper money by ten times is called the Marginal Cost (MC) of money.
Questão 17
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Since in every purchase of goods and services money is needed to play the function of the medium of exchange then such demands for money is called ‘transactions demand for money’.
Questão 18
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Of the three types of the demand for money John Maynard Keynes talks about, the speculative demand for money will no longer exist in Islamic Economic System.
Questão 19
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The doctrine of vice-gerency indicates that wealth is an end in itself and utmost effort can be put to collect as much as we can.
Questão 20
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The choice of the type of ‘money’ used in primitive societies reflects narrow-mindedness of the people who comprised the tribe.
Questão 21
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The labor time spent on each good determines the exchange rate.
Questão 22
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The relative labor time determines the exchange rate: labor time to grow two pounds rice /labor time to catch one fish.
Questão 23
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It is possible to put any chosen medium of exchange in the same row as other commodities that can be taken out from the market (detained) after the prices have been paid.
Questão 24
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The velocity of the medium of exchange which is the number of times it circulates and changes hands during a time period is normally greater than unity.
Questão 25
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If M stands for money and C for commodity then medium of exchange takes on the form: M—C—M.
Questão 26
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If one of the traders withholds ssfisf (sealed-salted fish) in order to get more ssfish by lending it; its effect is to increase the pace of everyday transactions and the society is better-off.
Questão 27
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If money is detained from being circulated the result would be the emergence of ‘money whirlpool’.
Questão 28
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Money whirlpool exemplifies the origin of ‘interest rate’ production within which money is exchanged for money.
Questão 29
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Economics is composed of two inter-related parts; one is ‘normative’ and the other one is ‘positive’. Normative part talks about ‘what ought to be’ and the positive part has to do with ‘what is’.
Questão 30
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In capitalistic economies ‘interest’ plays central role but in Islamic economics it has strictly been forbidden. Saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to interest comes from within the realm of normative (or ideological) part of any economic system.
Questão 31
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In making an economic system the normative part, logically, sets the red lines and the positive part plays within the red lines.
Questão 32
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The properties of interest (Riba) do not include time period.
Questão 33
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Bond issued by firms and/or governments is an instrument to borrow money and any money paid over and above its par value is ‘interest’ (Riba).
Questão 34
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Stock is different from bond in some ways and enjoys different properties and different consequences. Bond is a type of ‘debt’ to the issuer but stock issuer adds it to his/her capital.
Questão 35
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Any part of the profit paid to the stock holder cannot be considered cost but any money paid over and above the principal of loan as interest is considered ‘cost’.
Questão 36
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Friedman Rule says: “Zero nominal rates of interest are necessary for efficient resource allocation”.
Questão 37
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In Aristotle’s time, philosophers were concerned with matters such as “just price” and usury. The fact that these concepts are enjoying something of a revival today might well be a pointer to the serious harm that has been inflicted on many societies.
Questão 38
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Interest is a necessary and unavoidable aspect of every economic system, as a common string to tie all economic activities together and without which the system collapses.
Questão 39
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In capitalistic economic system all borrowed money on interest would go for investment activities where ‘investment’ has to do with hiring more labor.
Questão 40
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According to the classical theory the rate of interest is determined by the intersection of the demand for and supply of ‘money’. Thus, an equilibrium rate of interest is determined at a point at which the demand for ‘money’ equals its supply.
Questão 41
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John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a firm critic of the classical theory of the rate of interest.
Questão 42
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Money whirlpool (MW) is useful for every country in order to exchange money for money.
Questão 43
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Positive time preference (TP>0) means that a basket of commodities tomorrow is preferred to the same basket consumed today. Negative TP (TP<0) means the opposite.
Questão 44
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Based on the Prof. Schumpeter’s suggestion of an Evenly Rotating Economy (ERE) the rate of time preference with the suggested age profile of this economy we reach a community with zero rate of time preference which implies that the rate of interest shall be zero.
Questão 45
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It is not necessary that every financial system shall have self-correcting and self-adjusting mechanisms. Any deviations from the right path can be corrected by manipulating the relevant factors.
Questão 46
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In capitalistic economies there are two external sources to increase the level of corporations’ assets in addition to internal sources.
Questão 47
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Stockholders assume the financial risk of investing in a corporation. They have all rights to vote. Bond-holders do not own the company to which they have lent neither do they accept any risk. They do not have the right to vote. Finally, they in fact transfer the risk to the borrower.
Questão 48
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All the money earned from bonds issued by a corporation goes for investment projects and enhance employment.
Questão 49
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In capitalistic finance theory those who are in risky markets can be classified either as risk lover, risk averse or risk neutral; all three groups can be found in behaviors in the stock markets.
Questão 50
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Greed, non-satiation, and piety go hand in hand in a zero-sum game of capitalism which mean to legally put your hands on someone else’s wealth.
Questão 51
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Muslims believe that the Divine Rules are perfect and thus unchanging and created with man’s well-being in mind. As a result in our studies the Divine Rules are given the veto power, on the understanding that man-made rules cannot compete with them.
Questão 52
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In capitalistic economic system ‘capital’ means: financial assets, the factories, machinery and equipment, and so on. It does refer to its legal aspect and with explicit relationship with money.
Questão 53
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In capitalism Money market is ‘loan market’ for up to one year. Capital market is also loan market but for longer than one year. Both markets are fundamentally of ‘loan’ nature. The way money market has been distinguished from capital market is the length of time ‘loan’ is made which is non-scientific.
Questão 54
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Although money is potential capital but in Islamic Economic System (IES) can neither claim a reward (price) as interest nor is it considered as a factor of production in any economic system.
Questão 55
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Islamic Finance works with profit, rate of profit, profit sharing, and thus risk sharing but not with debt, interest and risk-transfer.
Questão 56
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The weaknesses of conventional banking system are loan (debt) and the debtor’s sole responsibility for the outcome the borrowed-money is used for perpetuates itself and leads to greed and greed, in turn, leads to higher risks (of default) and thus highly probable bankruptcy.
Questão 57
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Money whirlpool resulting from speculative activities does not allow saving (S) in the economy to equal investment (I). The
equality between the two variables (S = I) guarantees full employment.
Questão 58
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In Islamic Finance we concentrate on the banking facilities channel as well as on the balance sheet channel but more emphasis is on the structure of the balance sheet because of the crucial role Islamic Banks play in granting facilities having Wakalah on behalf of the depositors.
Questão 59
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Some great Western economists have emphasized the importance of financing frictions and inherent instability of the conventional financial system.
Questão 60
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Debt which is the backbone of the interest-bearing conventional banking system has come with some severe drawbacks such as adverse shock that wipes out large fraction of the levered borrower’s net worth, limiting his/her risk bearing capacity in the future; both are the effects of the limited capacity of borrowed money.
Questão 61
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There are three elements that can be attributed to the origin of volatility in financial intermediaries. They are interest rate expectations, artificial risk, and demand volatility unaccounted for. Last element is justifiable in almost all economic systems but not the first two.
Questão 62
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Volatility in financial markets has primarily to do more with ‘loan’ (debt) than with Profit & Loss Sharing (PLS). Domino effect will become active whenever new debts, which usually carries higher interest, are used to pay off earlier loans at different maturities.
Questão 63
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In conventional banking system the rational investor who is a borrower anticipates that the entrepreneur may lie.
Questão 64
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Money is an accounting concept and capital a legal concept.
Questão 65
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The structure and the entries of the two financing systems (capitalism and Islamic) are totally different with two different outcomes without frictions in macroeconomic policies.
Questão 66
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“Too many chiefs, not enough Indians" refers to the misleading idea that money (as medium of exchange) can itself be
another commodity which stands side by side with other commodities.
Questão 67
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Capitalism has taken it for granted that Riba-based financial system is a sound and viable system, in a way. While this system has, in itself, become part of the problem!
Questão 68
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Muslims believe that the Divine Rules are perfect and thus unchanging and created with man’s well-being in mind. As a result in our studies the Divine Rules are given the veto power, on the understanding that man-made rules cannot compete with them.
Questão 69
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The followings are part of the negatives of capitalistic economic system:
(a) Equity (justice), a second-hand argument with no guarantee of success,
(b) Conflict between efficiency and equity,
(c) Endorsement of all kinds of risks, artificial or else,
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(d) Scarcity of capital arising from positive nominal interest rates on money and the resulting speculative activities,
(e) Unemployment as a result of scarcity of capital,
(f) Satiation checked via social considerations.
Questão 70
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In capitalistic economic system ‘capital’ means: financial assets, the factories, machinery and equipment, and so on. It does refer to its legal aspect and with explicit relationship with money.
Questão 71
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Love, empathy, altruism, cooperation, sacrifice, mutual concern, forgiveness, gratitude, virtue, benevolence and honesty are as much a part of human heritage as hatred, self-interest, apathy, revenge, vice, dishonesty and fraud.
Questão 72
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Forbidden Riba (interest) means that we should put all our efforts in setting the rate of interest equal zero; that is, to manipulated demand for and supply of money so that they intersect at the point where rate of interest becomes zero.
Questão 73
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Debt has limited capacity in contrast with Musharakah whose potentiality can grow limitless.
Questão 74
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“Whether or not ideology can be eliminated from the world of thought in the social sciences, it is certainly indispensable in the world of action in social life”.
Questão 75
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There is no reason to believe that whatever man earns and accumulates over his life time should be used for his salvation that please Allah (swt). His own well-being comes first.