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Get in touch with HAMID HOSSEINI from King's College, Wilkes Barre. 
He knows the literature and has written on it, and I believe is a longtime member of HES. 
 
Also, I highly recommend the work of Ibn Khaldun see, e.g., 
http://www.ummah.net/history/scholars/KHALDUN.html for an intro to his work. The 
writings of others, like Ibn Battuta, should also be investigated. Very 
interesting and greatly overlooked, indeed. When will economics, and the history 
of economics, develop beyond its rigidly Eurocentric basis, and consider the 
economies and economics, of non-European societies and economic ideas, from a 
non-Eurocentric perspective. There have been some good efforts, from eveything 
from economic anthropology to Buddhist Economics, Islamic Economics, etc., but 
there is so much more that could be done.... 
 
Mat Forstater 
 
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