Islamic Economics and Public Choice Theory Implications

Government as an effective institution in resource allocation has a great importance in most of economic analyzes. For this reason understanding decision process in this institution is for explaining its economic performance and evaluating its efficiency. This paper through assuming some assumptions, analysis methods and policy implications of public choice school is to evaluate literature review of this issue in Islamic economy knowledge and then with a pathological view is to derive some analytical and practical elementsof public decision making system from the viewpoint of Islam. The ultimate purpose of the paper is to emphasis this point that not only elements like process efficiency, attention to public satisfaction and opposition with corruption and rent have been recognized in Islamic sources, but also they have been advised by Shiite’s Imams.