Prosperity, Stewardship, and the Common Good: A Comparative Study of Tax Policy, Employee Equity, and Bahá’í Economic Thought
- Author(s)
- Armin J Jezari
- Publisher
- Institutional Jurisprudence Press
- Year
- 2026
- Pages
- 177 pp.
- ISBN
- 979-8997797935
Description
Prosperity, Stewardship, and the Common Good explores one of the central economic questions of our time: how can society preserve the dynamism of markets while promoting greater economic justice, opportunity, and human dignity? Drawing on law, economics, public policy, and Bahá'í economic thought, Armin J. Jezari examines how legal institutions shape the distribution of wealth and opportunity long before taxes and government transfers enter the picture. The book considers taxation, employee ownership, profit sharing, social insurance, inheritance, capital participation, and the responsibilities associated with wealth. Rather than proposing a single economic system, Jezari develops an integrated framework in which government, productive enterprise, civil society, and individual conscience play distinct but complementary roles. Particular attention is given to broadening participation in productive ownership and to the Bahá'í principles of economic justice and stewardship, including the institution of Ḥuqúqu'lláh, while carefully distinguishing religious teachings from the author's own policy analysis. Accessible to general readers while grounded in legal and economic scholarship, Prosperity, Stewardship, and the Common Good offers a thoughtful framework for considering how prosperity, individual initiative, social responsibility, and the common good might be pursued together.