This volume of the collected writings of the late Dr van Leur (1908-1942), one of the first scholars to apply Max Weber's methodology of the social sciences to the Indonesia area, contains two major studies "On Early Asia Trade" (1934) and "The World of Southeast Asia: 1500-1650" (1940), plus a briefer essay "On the Study of Indonesian History" (1937) and three reviews.

    

    Focussing on output and growth (rather than distribution and consumption) the book discusses economic institutions, knowledge, capital, population, resources and government, and their role in the growth of output per head of population.

    Morlan's book, first published in 1955, is an important account of this crucial chapter in American agricultural and political history.

    

    My First Seventy-Six Years: the Autobiography of Hjalmar SchachtTranslated by Diana PykeLondon: Allan Wingate: 1955

    Bhave walked across India following Gandhi's death, asking landlord's to give him a portion of their land, to be redistributed to the landless.

    Parwez, a powerful treatise on the subject of economics, and possibly his most important work. Originally written to address communism as well as capitalism, its warnings and recommendations remain wholly relevant to the prevailing economic conditions of the twenty-first century. Parwez presents an alternative economic solution to capitalism and socialism, taken directly from the Qur’an. In outlining the Qur’anic ‘system of sustenance’, he boldly challenges the accepted norms regarding the individual and society. But this alternative goes far beyond the pale of economy. It claims to meet both the material and spiritual needs of human beings – thereby encompassing their entire individual and social existence. He argues that the Qur’an alone offers humanity material advancement without decadence, and spiritual advancement without dogmatism. A must-read for all students of economics and religion.