• DOI:10.1086/259818
Corpus ID: 144078253

Ibn Khaldûn: A Fourteenth-Century Economist

@article{Boulakia1971IbnKA,
  title={Ibn Khald{\^u}n: A Fourteenth-Century Economist},
  author={J. Boulakia},
  journal={Journal of Political Economy},
  year={1971},
  volume={79},
  pages={1105 - 1118}
}

• J. Boulakia
• Published 1971
• Economics
• Journal of Political Economy

Ibn Khaldûn was a fourteenth-century thinker who found a large number of economic mechanisms which were rediscovered by modern economists. Also, he used these concepts to build a coherent dynamic system. By quoting Ibn Khaldûn's Muqaddimah, this article tries to explain how Ibn Khaldûn reached economic conclusions and how he organized them into an extremely coherent model.