معرفت اقتصاد اسلامی

Population economics has long been a challenging topic in the literature of economic development and progress. In this context, economists have provided different analyzes of the economic functions of the population as well as the motivations for childbearing. One of the prominent approaches in this field is the Chicago school's approach to population and childbearing. The purpose of this research is to compare the demographic views of the Chicago School of Economics and the teachings of the Holy Quran and examine the theoretical foundations of these two views. The findings of the research, organized by the comparative analysis method, show: the literature of fertility economics of the Chicago school, whose foundations are derived from the quantity-quality theory of virgin population and is the main basis of fertility economics theories in conventional economics, has serious and fundamental differences with the Quranic foundations in the population area. Also, from the point of view of the Holy Quran, the cost-opportunity approach in marriage and childbearing is rejected and is considered a kind of shirk and disbelief in the promise of God Almighty. The Chicago school's view of the child is not in any way a divine blessing; The followers of this school consider the financial inclinations in having children to have priority over the innate desire and passion of human beings. Based on this and considering the rational choice of the Muslim person with the assumption of limited rationality, the view of the Chicago school is rejected from the point of view of religious foundations.