Early writings in Islamic economics depicted a grand and, some would say, utopian image of the type of societal development that would result from implementing Islamic social and economic theory. However, despite the emergence of Islamic economics in a modern sense in the 1960s, we now find that...

Finance has come in for a great deal of criticism after the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008. Clearly there were serious problems with finance as it was practiced in the years before the crisis. To the extent that this was only a gap between theory and practice, there is a need for...

This report summarises the findings of an ad hoc working group that reviewed the academic literature relevant to the regulatory framework for the trading book. This project was carried out in the first half of 2010 acting upon a request from the Trading Book Group to the Research Task Force of...

Der Text stammt von Erik Nagel und wurde im Jahre 2003 verfasst. Reflektiert wird das Verhältnis von Theorie und Praxis in der Lehre an den Fachhochschulen im allgemeinen und an der Hochschule für Wirtschaft im speziellen. Die These wird aufgestellt, dass Studierende über technisches Wissen...