Mechanisms of a Moral Economy | Shahid Bolsen

Shahid Bolsen breaks down why he refuses to accept Western economic theories as the default — and why that refusal is not stubbornness but rationality. Capitalism's foundational assumption is that human beings are nothing but self-interest maximizers. Islam starts from a completely different place: the human being as khalifa, as steward and trustee. Everything flows from that. Gharar, riba, mudharaba, musharaka, zakat, waqf, hisbah — Bolsen walks through the structural logic of each, showing not just what Islam prohibits but what it builds instead. This isn't a religious lecture. It's a systematic indictment of a failing system and a serious case for an alternative that has actually worked — across centuries, across geographies, across populations.