"In the Methodological Prologue to this book, I mention that Political Economy of Modernism takes its place in relation to my earlier books, Modernism and Time, which examined cultural modernism in relation to intellectual institutions of the sciences, mathematics, and aesthetics in the early...

This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who include St. Thomas Aquinas