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Nasir ad-Din Tusi on social cooperation and the division of labor: Fragment from The Nasirean Ethics

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Nasir ad-Din Tusi's (born 1201 in Tus in northeastern Persia; died 1274 in Baghdad), has been far more influential for his various contributions to astronomy and mathematics, including founding the Maraghah observatory (in Iranian Azerbaijan) and his brilliant reformulations of the Ptolemaic planetary model, which served as an important inspiration for Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) revolutionary work than for anything else. Nonetheless, he also stands as one major figure in the medieval Islamic philosophical ethics and a profound thinker on socio-economic matters, as is attested by his masterpiece AkhlÄ q-i NÄ sirÄ« (The Nasirean Ethics – titled after his first name), from which the following Fragment is taken. He may be deservingly credited as an important pioneer of the science of political economy.

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  • Sun, Guang-Zhen, 2008. "Nasir ad-Din Tusi on social cooperation and the division of labor: Fragment from The Nasirean Ethics," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 4(3), pages 403-413, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jinsec:v:4:y:2008:i:03:p:403-413_00
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