The story of the Egyptian economy

In this book, Dr. Jallal Amin sheds light on the development of the Egyptian economy over the past two centuries, from the beginning of Muhammad Ali's rule until the end of Mubarak's era, passing through the eras of Said Pasha, Khedive Ismail, the occupation period, and then the periods of Nasser, Sadat, and Mubarak; attempting to interpret the economic development over more than two centuries and extract important lessons from this long period of rise and fall, concluding that the periods of true renaissance for the Egyptian economy have always, throughout the past two centuries, been the times when Egypt enjoyed a reasonable degree of independence of will, permitted by a reasonable degree of improvement in international conditions. Jallal Amin is an Egyptian writer, critic, and thinker born in 1935. He graduated from Cairo University Faculty of Law in 1955, obtained a master's and doctorate from the University of London, served as a professor of economics at the Faculty of Law at Ain Shams University (1965–1974), and as a professor of economics at the American University in Cairo from 1979 until 2011. He won the Sultan Al Owais Award in the field of humanities and futurism in 2009. Among his works are: "What happened to the Egyptians?", "The Age of the Masses", "The Age of Defamation of Arabs and Muslims", "The Myth of Progress and Regression", "Egypt and the Egyptians in the Era of Mubarak", "What Life Taught Me", and "The Nectar of Life".