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Publications of Timur Kuran    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Timur Kuran, Yollar Ayrılırken (2012), YKY, Istanbul
  2. Timur Kuran, Al Islam Wal Thara’ Al Malo’un: Ma’zeq Al Iktissad Al Islami (2011), Riad El-Rayyes Books, Beirut (Arabic translation of 2004 book, Islam and Mammon, with a special preface for Arab readers. Translated by Salah Abdul Haq..)
  3. Timur Kuran, The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (2010), Princeton University Press
  4. Timur Kuran, (Ed.) Mahkeme Kayıtları Işığında 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul’unda Sosyo-Ekonomik Yaşam / Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records, Vols. 1-6 (2010), Istanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları,
  5. Timur Kuran, Islam and Mammon (2006), Tulika Press (South Asian trade edition.)
  6. Timur Kuran, Pian Hao Wei Zhuang De She Hui Hou Guo, Changchun Publishing House, (2005) (Chinese translation of Private Truths, Public Lies by Ding Zhen Huan and Ou Yang Wu.)
  7. Timur Kuran, Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (2004), Princeton University Press  [abs]
  8. Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (2002), İletişim Yayınları (Turkish translation by Yasemin Tezgiden. With an original introduction.)
  9. Timur Kuran, Yalanla Yaşamak: Tercih Çarpıtmasının Toplumsal Sonuçları (2001), YKY (Turkish translation by Alp Tümertekin, with an additional preface.)
  10. Timur Kuran, Privat Sanning, Offentlig Lögn (1999), City University Press (Swedish translation by Margareta Eklöf.)
  11. Timur Kuran, Leben in Lüge: Präferenzverfälschungen und Ihre Gesellschaftlichen Folgen (1997), J.C.B. Mohr (German translation by Ekkehard Schöller, with an additional preface.)
  12. Timur Kuran, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995), Harvard University Press

Book Reviews

  1. Timur Kuran, Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa, Journal of Economic History, vol. 69 (2009), pp. 1182-84
  2. Timur Kuran, Şevket Pamuk, A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), International Journal of Turkish Studies, vol. 8 (Spring, 2002), pp. 144-46
  3. Timur Kuran, Barbara R. Bergmann, In Defense of Affirmative Action (New York: Basic Books, 1996), Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 35 (March, 1997), pp. 153-55
  4. Timur Kuran, Mohamed Aslam Haneef, Contemporary Islamic Economic Thought: A Selected Comparative Analysis (Petaling Jaya, Selangor: Ikraq, 1995),, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin,, vol. 30 (December, 1996), pp. 182-83
  5. Timur Kuran, M. Umer Chapra, Islam and the Economic Challenge, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 31 (September 1993), pp. 1484-86, Islamic Foundation, Leicester, England
  6. Timur Kuran, M. Casson, The Economics of Business Culture: Game Theory, Transaction Costs, and Economic Performance, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 31 (1993), pp. 234-5, Clarendon Press, Oxford
  7. Timur Kuran, A. Rahnema and F. Nomani, The Secular Miracle: Religion, Politics and Economic Policy in Iran, Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 3 (July, 1992), pp. 286-8
  8. T. Kuran, Ö. Mehmet, Islamic Identity and Development: Studies of the Islamic Periphery, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 24 (February, 1992), pp. 137-40
  9. T. Kuran, J. A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 21 (January, 1992), pp. 8-10
  10. T. Kuran, M. A. Choudhury, Islamic Economic Co-operation, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 15 (June, 1991), pp. 395-8
  11. T. Kuran, J. Elster, The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 28 (September, 1990), pp. 1194-5
  12. T. Kuran, M.S. Khan and A. Mirakhor, Theoretical Studies in Islamic Banking and Finance, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 13 (September, 1989), pp. 486-9
  13. T. Kuran, G. Meier, Pioneers in Development: Second Series, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 26 (December, 1988), pp. 1753-5
  14. T. Kuran, T. Scitovsky, Human Desire and Economic Satisfaction, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 25 (December, 1987), pp. 1852-4
  15. T. Kuran, R. Brenner, Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 24 (December, 1986), pp. 1802-4
  16. T. Kuran, M. Syrquin, L. Taylor, and L. Westphal, Economic Structure and Performance, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 24 (June, 1986), pp. 687-8
  17. T. Kuran, K. Ahmad, Studies in Islamic Economics, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 17 (May, 1985), pp. 261-3
  18. T. Kuran, J. Elster, Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 5 (Sept. - Dec.1984), pp. 401-3
  19. T. Kuran, B. Balassa and associates, Development Strategies in Semi-Industrial Economies, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 21 (December, 1983), pp. 1515-7 (Reprinted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese in Economic Impact..)

Journal Articles

  1. Timur Kuran, The Economic Roots of Political Underdevelopment in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 79 (2012), pp. in press.
  2. Timur Kuran and Anantdeep Singh, Economic Modernization Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 79 (2012), pp. in press
  3. Timur Kuran, West is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall, Foreign Affairs, vol. 90 (January, 2011), pp. 159-63
  4. Timur Kuran, Explaining the Economic Trajectories of Civilizations: The Systemic Approach, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 71 (2009), pp. 593-605  [abs]
  5. Timur Kuran and William Sandholm, Cultural Integration and Its Discontents, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 75 (2008), pp. 201-228
  6. Timur Kuran and Edward McCaffery, Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Discrimination, Political Research Quarterly, vol. 61 (2008), pp. 228-238
  7. Timur Kuran, Alle radici del deficit imprenditorialità in Medio Oriente, Biblioteca della libertà, vol. 42 (2007), pp. 11-36
  8. Timur Kuran, Institutional Causes of Underdevelopment in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective, edited by J. Kornai, L. Matyas, and G. Roland, Institutional Change and Economic Behaviour (2007), pp. 64-76, Palgrave-Macmillan
  9. Timur Kuran, Asbāb Takhalluf al-Sharq al-Awsat Iqtisadiyyan Al-Āliyyat al-Tārikhiyyah lil-Rukūd al-Mu‘assasatiy (April, 2006) (Arabic translation of Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation.) [org]
  10. Timur Kuran, Zhong Dong Di Qu He Yi Jing Ji Luo Hou: Jing Ji Ting Zhi De Li Shi Ji Li, Kai Fang Shi Dai, vol. 183 (March, 2006), pp. 89-105, Open Times (Chinese translation of Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation.)
  11. Timur Kuran, The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence, American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 53 (2005), pp. 785-834
  12. Timur Kuran, The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 56 (2005), pp. 593-615
  13. Timur Kuran, Perché il Medio Oriente è Economicamente Arretrato: Meccanismi Storici di Stagnazione Istituzionale, QA: Rivista dell' Associazione Manlio Rossi-Doria (2005), pp. 45-73 (Italian translation of Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation.)
  14. Timur Kuran, The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East, edited by J. Hall and J. Bryant, Historical Methods in the Social Sciences (2005), Sage (Reprint.)
  15. Timur Kuran and Edward McCaffery, Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web, Social Science Quarterly, vol. 85 (2004), pp. 713-730
  16. Timur Kuran, The Economic Ascent of the Middle East's Religious Minorities: The Role of Islamic Legal Pluralism, Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 33 (2004), pp. 475-515
  17. Timur Kuran, Islamic Statecraft and the Middle East's Delayed Modernization, edited by P. Bernholz and R. Vaubel, Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations (2004), pp. 150-183, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, U.K.
  18. Timur Kuran, Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 18 (2004), pp. 71-90
  19. T. Kuran, Cultural Obstacles to Economic Development: Often Overstated, Usually Transitory, edited by V.Rao and M. Walton, Culture and Public Action: Understanding the Role of Culture and Development Policy in an Unequal World (2004), pp. 115-137, Stanford University Press
  20. Timur Kuran, The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East, Journal of Economic History, vol. 63 (2003), pp. 414-446
  21. T. Kuran, Islamic Redistribution Through Zakat: Historical Record and Modern Realities, edited by M. Bonner, M. Ener and A. Singer, Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts (2003), pp. 275-293, State University of New York Press
  22. T. Kuran, The Religious Undertow of Muslim Economic Grievances (2003), Siglo XXI (Spanish translation, forthcoming.)
  23. T. Kuran, The Religious Undertow of Muslim Economic Grievances, edited by C. Calhoun, P. Price and A. Timmer, Understanding September 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences (2002), pp. 67-74, New Press (Short version available via http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/.)
  24. T. Kuran, The Provision of Public Goods under Islamic Law: Origins, Impact, and Limitations of the Waqf System, Law and Society Review, vol. 35 no. 4 (December, 2001), pp. 841-897
  25. T. Kuran, Islamic Influences on the Ottoman Guilds, edited by K. Çiçek, The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilization, vol. 2 (2000), pp. 43-59, Yeni Türkiye
  26. T. Kuran, Osmanlı Lonca Teşkilâtı Üzerinde İslâmî Etkiler, edited by G.Eren, Osmanlı (2000), pp. 97-112, Yeni Türkiye Yayınları (Turkish translation of Islamic Influences on the Ottoman Guilds.)
  27. Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein, Controlling availability cascades, edited by Cass R. Sunstein, Behavioral Law and Economics (2000), pp. 374-397, Cambridge University Press
  28. Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein, Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation, Stanford Law Review, vol. 51 (1999), pp. 683-768
  29. Timur Kuran, Insincere Deliberation and Democratic Failure, Critical Review, vol. 12 no. 529-44 (Fall 1998)
  30. T. Kuran, The Vulnerability of the Arab state: Reflections on the Ayubi thesis, Independent Review, vol. 3 (Summer, 1998), pp. 111-23
  31. T. Kuran, Ethnic Norms and Their Transformation through Reputational Cascades, Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 27 (Summer 1998, pt. 2), pp. 623-59
  32. T. Kuran, Moral overload and its alleviation, in Economics, Values, and Organization, edited by Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman (1998), pp. 231-66, Cambridge University Press, New York
  33. T. Kuran, Ethnic dissimilation and its international diffusion, in Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation, edited by David A. Lake and Donald (1998), pp. 35-60, Princeton University Press, Princeton
  34. T. Kuran, Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction, in Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory, edited by ”Peter Hedström and Richard Swedberg (1998), pp. 147-71, Cambridge University Press, New York
  35. T. Kuran, The genesis of Islamic economics: A chapter in the politics of Muslim identity, Social Research, vol. 64 (Summer, 1997), pp. 301-338
  36. T. Kuran, Islam and Underdevelopment: An Old Puzzle Revisited, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 153 (March, 1997), pp. 41-71
  37. T. Kuran, Islamism and economics: Policy implications for a free society, edited by Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani, Islam and Public Policy [International Review of Comparative Public Policy], vol. 9 (1997), pp. 72-102, JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn.
  38. T. Kuran, Islamic economics and the clash of civilizations, Middle Eastern Lectures, vol. 2 (1997), pp. 25-38
  39. T. Kuran, The discontents of Islamic economic morality, American Economic Review, vol. 86 (May, 1996), pp. 438-442
  40. T. Kuran, Islamic economics and the Islamic subeconomy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 9 (Fall, 1995), pp. 155-73
  41. Timur Kuran, The inevitability of future revolutionary surprises, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 100 (1995), pp. 1528-51
  42. T. Kuran, Religious economics and the economics of religion, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 149 (December, 1994), pp. 769-775
  43. T. Kuran, Mitigating the tyranny of public opinion: Anonymous discourse and the ethic of sincerity, Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 3 (Winter, 1993), pp. 41-74
  44. T. Kuran, The unthinkable and the unthought, Rationality and Society, vol. 5 (October, 1993), pp. 473-505
  45. Timur Kuran, Seeds of racial explosion, Society, vol. 30 (1993), pp. 55-67
  46. T. Kuran, The economic impact of Islamic fundamentalism, in Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Policies, Economies, and Militance, edited by M. Marty and S. Appleby (1993), pp. 302-341, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  47. T. Kuran, Fundamentalisms and the economy, in Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Policies, Economies, and Militance, edited by M. Marty and S. Appleby (1993), pp. 289-301, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  48. T. Kuran, Now out of never: The element of surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989, World Politics, vol. 44 (October, 1991), pp. 7-48
  49. T. Kuran, Cognitive limitations and preference evolution, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 146 (June, 1991), pp. 241-73
  50. T. Kuran, The East European Revolution of 1989: Is it surprising that we were surprised?, American Economic Review, vol. 81 (May, 1991), pp. 121-125
  51. T. Kuran, Private and public preferences, Economics and Philosophy, vol. 6 (April, 1990), pp. 1-26
  52. T. Kuran, The role of deception in political competition, in The Competitive State, edited by A. Breton, G. Galeotti, P. Salmon, and R. Wintrobe (1990), pp. 71-95, Kluwer-Nijhoff, Boston
  53. T. Kuran, On the notion of economic justice in contemporary Islamic thought, Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 21 (May, 1989), pp. 171-191
  54. T. Kuran, Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution, Public Choice, vol. 61 (April, 1989), pp. 41-74
  55. T. Kuran with Mongi Azabou and Mustapha Nabli, The wholesale produce market of Tunis and its porters: A tale of market degeneration, in The New Institutional Economics and Development: Theory and Applications to Tunisia, edited by Mustapha Nabli and Jeffrey Nugent (1989), pp. 352-374, North-Holland, Amsterdam
  56. T. Kuran, The craft guilds of Tunis and their amins: A study in institutional atrophy, in The New Institutional Economics and Development: Theory and Applications to Tunisia (1989), pp. 236-264
  57. T. Kuran, The tenacious past: Theories of personal and collective conservatism, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 100 (September, 1988), pp. 143-171
  58. T. Kuran, Preference falsification, policy continuity and collective conservatism, Economic Journal, vol. 97 (September, 1987), pp. 642-665
  59. T. Kuran, Chameleon voters and public choice, Public Choice, vol. 53 (1987), pp. 53-78
  60. T. Kuran, Continuity and change in Islamic economic thought, in Pre-Classical Political Economy: From the Greeks to the Scottish Enlightenment (1987), pp. 103-113
  61. T. Kuran, Price adjustment costs, anticipated inflation, and output, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 101 (May, 1986), pp. 407-418
  62. T. Kuran, The economic system in contemporary Islamic thought: Interpretation and assessment, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 18 (May, 1986), pp. 135-164
  63. T. Kuran, Anticipated inflation and aggregate employment: The case of costly price adjustment, Economic Inquiry, vol. 24 (April, 1986), pp. 293-311
  64. T. Kuran, Behavioral norms in the Islamic doctrine of economics: A critique, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 44 (December, 1983), pp. 353-379
  65. T. Kuran, Asymmetric price rigidity and inflationary bias, American Economic Review, vol. 73 (June, 1983), pp. 373-382
  66. T. Kuran, Internal migration: The unorganized urban sector and income distribution in Turkey, 1963-1973, in The Political Economy of Income Distribution in Turkey (1980), pp. 349-378
  67. T. Kuran, Technical appendix to “Substitution and structural change”, in Structural Change and Development Policy (August, 1979)

Chapters in Books

  1. Timur Kuran, Political Consequences of the Middle East’s Economic Legacy, in Economic Development and Institutional Change: Proceedings of the 16th World Congress of the International Economic Association, vol. 1, edited by Masahoki Aoki (2012), pp. in press, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York
  2. Timur Kuran, Public opinion, in Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (2011), Princeton University Press
  3. Timur Kuran, Economic theory, in Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (2011), Princeton University Press
  4. Timur Kuran, Economic Development in the Middle East: The Historical Roles of Culture, Institutions, and Religion,, edited by Jean-Philippe Platteau (2010), pp. 87-102, New York: Routledge
  5. Timur Kuran, The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions, in Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Economic History, edited by William J. Baumol, David S. Landes, and Joel Mokyr (2010), pp. 62-87, Princeton University Press, Princeton
  6. Timur Kuran, The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective, in Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law, edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan (2010), pp. 71-89, Routledge
  7. Timur Kuran, Modern Islam and the Economy, edited by Michael Cook, Robert Hefner, New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 6 (2010), pp. 473-94, Cambridge University Press
  8. Timur Kuran, Thomas Schelling, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, vol. 7, (2008), pp. 299-302, Macmillian, London
  9. Timur Kuran, Islamic economic institutions, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition,, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, vol. 4, (2008), pp. 299-302, Macmillian, London
  10. Timur Kuran, Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation, in The Development Economics Reader, edited by G. Secondi (2008), pp. 107-125, Routledge, London (Reprint of 2004 Journal of Economic Perspectives article..)
  11. Timur Kuran, Islamism and Economics: Policy Implications for a Free Society, in Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas, edited by Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani (2008), Routledge, New York (Updated version of a 1997 paper..)
  12. T. Kuran, Russian translation of Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy, in Hristianstvo i Islam ob Ekonomike, edited by Danila Raskov (2008), NPK Rost, St. Petersburg
  13. Timur Kuran, Institutional Causes of Underdevelopment in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective, in Institutional Change and Economic Behavior, edited by János Kornai, Laszlo Matyas, and Gérard Roland (2008), pp. 64-76, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York
  14. T. Kuran, Capitalism, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 1, (2004), pp. 126-28, Macmillan Reference, New York
  15. T. Kuran, Property, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2, (2004), pp. 553-54
  16. T. Kuran, Riba, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2, (2004), pp. 596-597
  17. T. Kuran, Levant: Islamic Rule, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, vol. 3, (2003), pp. 306-14
  18. T. Kuran, Public opinion, microsociological aspects, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001), pp. 12556-60
  19. T. Kuran, Interest, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 2, (1995), pp. 205-07
  20. T. Kuran, Economic Theory, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, (1995), pp. 397-400
  21. T. Kuran with Jeffrey Nugent, Economic Development, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, (1995), pp. 393-97

Working Papers

  1. Timur Kuran and Scott Lustig, Structural Inefficiencies of Islamic Courts: Ottoman Justice and Its Implications for Modern Economic Life (December, 2010)
  2. T. Kuran, The Logic of the Middle Eastern Capitulations (November, 2005)
  3. T. Kuran, Islamic Barriers to Ottoman Economic Modernization: The Case of Insurance Markets (September, 2004)
  4. T. Kuran, Opportunistic Taxation in Middle Eastern History: Islamic Influences on the Evolution of Private Property Rights (August, 2002)

Other

  1. Timur Kuran, Phase III of the Arab World’s Modernization: Building Accountability and Boosting Creativity, in The Compendium on Economic Governance in the Arab World 2011, World Economic Forum (October, 2011), pp. 10-11
  2. Timur Kuran, The Weak Foundations of Arab Democracy, New York Times (May 29, 2011) [29kuran.html]
  3. Timur Kuran, Legal Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East, European Financial Review (February, 2011)
  4. Timur Kuran, Excerpt of Long Divergence, Milken Institute Review, vol. 13 (2011), pp. 59-76
  5. Timur Kuran, Preface: The economic impact of culture, religion, and the law, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 71 no. 3 (2009), pp. 589-592
  6. Timur Kuran, guest editor, The Economic Performance of Civilizations: Roles of Culture, Religion, and the Law, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 71 (2009), pp. 589-717
  7. Timur Kuran, The Political Legacies of Islam (2008) (Book manuscript, working title..)
  8. Timur Kuran, Excerpt of Islam and Mammon: Milken Institute Review, vol. 6 no. 3 (2004), pp. 61-81
  9. T. Kuran, Comment on Bill Maurer's “Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives, Anthropology Today, vol. 17 no. 3 (June, 2001), pp. 28-29
  10. Julian Simon, edited by Timur Kuran, The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause, (2001), University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
  11. Institutions and Economic Performance: A Conversation between Douglass North and Timur Kuran (May, 2000) (41 minute educational video for the Idea Channel..)
  12. T. Kuran, Reply to Umer Chapra's comment on article 28, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 10 (Summer, 1996), pp. 195-196
  13. T. Kuran, “Further reflections on the behavioral norms of Islamic economics” [Reply to Shahid Ebrahim and Akram Safadi's comment on article 4], Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,, vol. 27 (June, 1995), pp. 159-163
  14. T. Kuran, Reply to Ozay Mehmet's comment on review 12, International Journal of Middle East Studies,, vol. 26 (February, 1994), pp. 175-176
  15. T. Kuran, “Institutions as regulators of economic change” [Comment on four articles by Eric Dahmén, Richard Day, Tad Rybcznski, and Gunnar Eliasson], he Market in Ownership, Innovation, and Control (1993), pp. 50-53
  16. T. Kuran, Why revolutions are better understood than predicted: The role of preference falsification” [Comment on an article by Nikki Keddie], Contention,, vol. 3 (Spring, 1992), pp. 199-207
  17. T. Kuran, Reply to Muhammad Khan's comment on article 15, International Journal of Middle East Studies,, vol. 22 (August, 1990), pp. 376-377

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