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An Analysis of Yusuf (AS)'s Counter-Cyclical Principle and its Implementation in the Modern World

Tazkia Islamic Finance and Business Review

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Title An Analysis of Yusuf (AS)'s Counter-Cyclical Principle and its Implementation in the Modern World
 
Creator Ahmed, Jameel; University of Balochistan, Quetta 87300, Pakistan
Mydin Meera, Ahamed Kameel; IIUM Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Collins, Patrick; Azabu University, Sagamihara Kanagawa, Japan
 
Description Objective - This study examines the present-day implementation of the counter-cyclical principle suggested by Yusuf (AS) around four thousand years ago, in response to the King of Egypt's dream, to overcome the famine of seven years through saving grain during seven years of abundance. In general, the counter-cyclical principle encourages saving during times of plenty and spending during times of scarcity, activities which today help to stabilise the business-cycle.Method - Library research is applied since this paper relies on secondary data by thoroughly reviewing the most relevant literature. This paper reviews the commodity-based currency systems proposed before, during and after the Second World War by several prominent economists (particularly Keynes, 1938; Graham, 1940; Hayek, 1943; Grondona, 1950 and Lietaer, 2001) all of which basically incorporated the counter-cyclical principle of Prophet Yusuf (AS). The primary purpose of these commodity-based currency systems is to stabilise the real value of money in order to improve macroeconomic stability. Additionally, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of Grondona system of conditional currency convertibility.Results - The Grondona system would partially stabilise the real value of each country's national currency in terms of a range of durable, essential, basic imported commodities, thereby also partially stabilising the prices of the selected commodities in terms of the national currency of each country implementing the system.Conclusion - The Grondona system of conditional currency convertibility as compared to other commodity-based currency systems is more practical. Its primary advantage in comparison to other proposals of commodity reserve currency is that it could be implemented in parallel with the existing monetary system. Accordingly, it could be taken as a preliminary step towards a monetary system based on real money such as gold dinar.Keywords : Counter-cyclical principle; Grondona system; Commodity-based currency system (s).
 
Publisher Institute for Research and Community Empowerment (LPPM TAZKIA)
 
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Date 2014-03-11
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://tifbr-tazkia.org/index.php/TIFBR/article/view/13
10.30993/tifbr.v7i2.13
 
Source Tazkia Islamic Finance and Business Review; Vol 7, No 2 (2012)
2460-0717
1907-8145
10.30993/tifbr.v7i2
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://tifbr-tazkia.org/index.php/TIFBR/article/view/13/79