Introduction -- The Story I Am -- Eureka -- My Personal Gene -- Gene in Research -- My Gene: A Practical Reflection of the Integral Gene -- Burning Issues -- Conclusion -- Economic Development in Nigeria -- Introduction -- The Narrative of the Current Economic Context -- Integral Development Economics -- Good Governance -- The Good Enough Governance Agenda -- Development Indicators in Nigeria -- The Becans Model -- Poverty in Nigeria -- Unemployment in Nigeria -- Conclusion -- The African Socio-economic World -- Introduction -- The Economic Theory of Ibn Khaldun -- The Pre-colonial Political History of Nigeria -- The Indigenous Informal African Financial System -- The African Triple Socio-economic Heritage -- Economic Development in Africa -- Conclusion -- Moral Economics -- Introduction -- The Moral Economic Core -- Jewish Moral Economic Theory -- The Buddhist Moral Economic System -- Aristotle's Moral Economic Masterworks -- Biblical Moral Economics -- The Foundation of the Islamic Moral Economic System -- Conclusion

Economic Thinking Leading to an African Context -- Introduction -- Modernization Theories -- Dependency Theories -- World Systems Theories -- Drawing from Twenty-first-century Economic Theories -- Conclusion -- Islamic Economics and Finance -- Introduction -- Neo-classical Islamic Economic Thoughts -- Islam and Business Ethics -- Islamic Financial Instruments and Contracts -- Islamic Banking Assessment -- The Framework for Non-interest Banks in Nigeria -- The Emerging Value Proposition for Islamic Financial Institutions in Nigeria -- Solving the Poverty Challenge with Islamic Finance -- Conclusion -- New Integral Economic Models -- Introduction -- Theory from the Co-operative Inquiry -- Developing the African Economic Theory -- The Integral African Development Economic Model -- Theory-to-action -- The Integral Economic Development Model as Applied -- The Centre for Integral Social and Economic Research -- The Path to Socio-economic Transformation in Nigeria and Africa -- Conclusion.