معرفت اقتصاد اسلامی

In the past few decades, formation of a public and seientific movement towards business ethics has challenged dualistic views about personal and social ethics. Many economic thinkers have realized that contrary to traditional approches, legal pressure and the market’s invisible hand cannot prevent the moral hazards of business. Development of business ethics, instead, can enhance the performance of business by filling legal gaps. Islam goes beyond the purely instrumental approach to business by considering business ethics to be a strategy for development of moral virtues in the market as well as in the Islamic society as a whole. Apart from revealing the need for cultural engineering of the market,this approach can transform prevailing policies with the aim of institutionalizing Islamic business ethics.