Rationality, risk, uncertainty, and Islamic finance by Kustin, B

“…Global shifts in concentrations and movements of capital and power are entwined with the Islamic finance industry’s rapid ascent from experimental to full-fledged in the 1990s. As an economic anthropologist, my approach to Islamic finance invokes disciplinary shifts in anthropology also intimately entwined with the falling walls of 1989—synecdoche for a triumph of capitalism, the downfall of communism, and new velocities in capital circulation across eroding borders.…”