Vital guide to Finance

A Basic Guide to Contemporary Islamic Banking and Finance

I was asked by ISNA to produce a short guide to Islamic Banking and Finance for the Muslims of North America. To keep this guide short, we had to define our target audience rather carefully. This introductory guide is meant to address the Muslim who is familiar with the fundamental tenets and sources of legislation in Islam. The reader is not assumed to have elaborate prior knowledge of Islamic...

A Guide to the Technical Finance Literature on Uncertainty Aversion

In the introduction to the first volume of his collected papers Boulding refers to paper No. 9 as, “I think, perhaps I would nominate as my most important contribution to economics (although, again, one to which no one has paid much attention). This note sets out Boulding’s analysis in this paper focusing primarily on the price determination component. It also looks at how his model can readily...

New Dynamic Public Finance: A User’s Guide

Is the ‘Evidence-Based Approach’ a Good Guide to School Finance Policy?

The Physical Activity Vital Sign: a primary care tool to guide counseling for obesity.

BACKGROUND Only 25% of US adults achieve adequate physical activity (PA). Obtaining a PA history is an appropriate first step when evaluating this behavior. The Physical Activity Vital Sign (PAVS) is a clinical tool designed to screen for PA in adults. METHODS To determine how responses to the PAVS questions associate with BMI, overweight, and obesity, we performed a cross-sectional study uti...