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Books

  1. T. Kuran, Islam and Mammon (2006), Tulika Press (South Asian trade edition.) .
  2. T. Kuran, Pian Hao Wei Zhuang De She Hui Hou Guo: Private Truths, Public Lies, Changchun Publishing House (2005) (Chinese translation of Private Truths, Public Lies by Ding Zhen Huan and Ou Yang Wu.) .
  3. T. Kuran, Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (2004), Princeton University Press .
  4. T. Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (2002), İletişim Yayınları (Turkish translation by Yasemin Tezgiden. With an original introduction.) .
  5. T. Kuran, Yalanla Yaşamak: Tercih Çarpıtmasının Toplumsal Sonuçları (2001), YKY (Turkish translation by Alp Tümertekin, with an additional preface.) .
  6. T. Kuran, Privat Sanning, Offentlig Lögn (1999), City University Press (Swedish translation by Margareta Eklöf.) .
  7. T. Kuran, Leben in Lüge: Präferenzverfälschungen und Ihre Gesellschaftlichen Folgen (1997), J.C.B. Mohr (German translation by Ekkehard Schöller, with an additional preface.) .
  8. T. Kuran, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995), Harvard University Press .

Chapters in Books

  1. T. Kuran, Thomas Schelling, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume (2007), Macmillian (in press.) .
  2. T. Kuran, Islamic economic institutions, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition,, edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume (2007), Macmillian (in press.) .
  3. T. Kuran, Capitalism, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 1, (2004), pp. 126-28, Macmillan Reference .
  4. T. Kuran, Property, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2, (2004), pp. 553-54 .
  5. T. Kuran, Riba, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2, (2004), pp. 596-597 .
  6. T. Kuran, Levant: Islamic Rule, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, vol. 3, (2003), pp. 306-14 .
  7. T. Kuran, Public opinion, microsociological aspects, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001), pp. 12556-60 .
  8. T. Kuran, Interest, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 2, (1995), pp. 205-07 .
  9. T. Kuran, Economic Theory, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, (1995), pp. 397-400 .
  10. T. Kuran with Jeffrey Nugent, Economic Development, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, (1995), pp. 393-97 .

Journal Articles

  1. T. Kuran, Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation, edited by G. Secondi, The Development Economics Reader (2008), Routledge (Reprint; in press.) .
  2. with W. Sandholm, Cultural Integration and Its Discontents, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 75 (2008) (In press.) .
  3. with E. McCaffery, Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Discrimination, Political Research Quarterly (2008) (Forthcoming.) .
  4. T. Kuran, The inevitability of future revolutionary surprises, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 100 (May, 1995), pp. 1528-51 .
  5. T. Kuran, Seeds of racial explosion, Society, vol. 30 (September/October 1993), pp. 55-67 .
  6. T. Kuran, Alle radici del deficit imprenditorialità in Medio Oriente, Biblioteca della libertà, vol. 42 (2007), pp. 11-36 .
  7. T. 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 .
  8. T. Kuran, Modern Islam and the Economy, edited by M. Cook, R. Hefner, New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 6 (2007), Cambridge University Press (In press.) .
  9. T. 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. T. 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. T. Kuran, The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence, American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 53 (July, 2005), pp. 785-834 .
  12. T. Kuran, The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 56 (April, 2005), pp. 593-615 .
  13. T. 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. T. 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. with E. McCaffery, Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web, Social Science Quarterly, vol. 85 (September, 2004), pp. 713-730 .
  16. T. Kuran, The Economic Ascent of the Middle East's Religious Minorities: The Role of Islamic Legal Pluralism, Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 33 (June, 2004), pp. 475-515 .
  17. T. 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 .
  18. T. 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. T. Kuran, The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East, ournal of Economic History, vol. 63 (June, 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. with C.R. Sunstein, Controlling availability cascades, edited by C.R. Sunstein, Behavioral Law and Economics (2000), pp. 374-397, Cambridge University Press .
  28. T. Kuran with Cass R. Sunstein, Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation, Stanford Law Review, vol. 51 (April, 1999), pp. 683-768 .
  29. T. 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 .
  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 .
  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 .
  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 .
  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. T. Kuran, Religious economics and the economics of religion, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 149 (December, 1994), pp. 769-775 .
  42. 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 .
  43. T. Kuran, The unthinkable and the unthought, Rationality and Society, vol. 5 (October, 1993), pp. 473-505 .
  44. 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 .
  45. 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 .
  46. 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 .
  47. T. Kuran, Cognitive limitations and preference evolution, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 146 (June, 1991), pp. 241-73 .
  48. 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 .
  49. T. Kuran, Private and public preferences, Economics and Philosophy, vol. 6 (April, 1990), pp. 1-26 .
  50. 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 .
  51. T. Kuran, On the notion of economic justice in contemporary Islamic thought, Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 21 (May, 1989), pp. 171-191 .
  52. T. Kuran, Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution, Public Choice, vol. 61 (April, 1989), pp. 41-74 .
  53. 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 .
  54. 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 .
  55. T. Kuran, The tenacious past: Theories of personal and collective conservatism, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 100 (September, 1988), pp. 143-171 .
  56. T. Kuran, Preference falsification, policy continuity and collective conservatism, Economic Journal, vol. 97 (September, 1987), pp. 642-665 .
  57. T. Kuran, Chameleon voters and public choice, Public Choice, vol. 53 (1987), pp. 53-78 .
  58. 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 .
  59. T. Kuran, Price adjustment costs, anticipated inflation, and output, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 101 (May, 1986), pp. 407-418 .
  60. 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 .
  61. T. Kuran, Anticipated inflation and aggregate employment: The case of costly price adjustment, Economic Inquiry, vol. 24 (April, 1986), pp. 293-311 .
  62. 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 .
  63. T. Kuran, Asymmetric price rigidity and inflationary bias, American Economic Review, vol. 73 (June, 1983), pp. 373-382 .
  64. 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 .
  65. T. Kuran, Technical appendix to “Substitution and structural change”, in Structural Change and Development Policy (August, 1979) .

Book Reviews

  1. T. Kuran, Pamuk, Şevket. 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 .
  2. T. 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 .
  3. T. 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 .
  4. T. Kuran, M. Uper Chapra, Islam and the Economic Challenge, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 31 (September, 1993), pp. 1484-86, Islamic Foundation .
  5. T. Kuran, M. Casson, The Economics of Business Culture: Game Theory, Transaction Costs, and Economic Performance, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 31 (March, 1993), pp. 234-5, Clarendon Press .
  6. T. 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 .
  7. 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 .
  8. T. Kuran, J. A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 21 (January, 1992), pp. 8-10 .
  9. T. Kuran, M. A. Choudhury, Islamic Economic Co-operation, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 15 (June, 1991), pp. 395-8 .
  10. T. Kuran, J. Elster, The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 28 (September, 1990), pp. 1194-5 .
  11. 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 .
  12. T. Kuran, G. Meier, Pioneers in Development: Second Series, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 26 (December, 1988), pp. 1753-5 .
  13. T. Kuran, T. Scitovsky, Human Desire and Economic Satisfaction, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 25 (December, 1987), pp. 1852-4 .
  14. T. Kuran, R. Brenner, Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 24 (December, 1986), pp. 1802-4 .
  15. T. Kuran, M. Syrquin, L. Taylor, and L. Westphal, Economic Structure and Performance, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 24 (June, 1986), pp. 687-8 .
  16. T. Kuran, K. Ahmad, Studies in Islamic Economics, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 17 (May, 1985), pp. 261-3 .
  17. 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 .
  18. 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..) .

Working Papers

  1. T. Kuran, Explaining the Economic Trajectories of Civilizations: The Systemic Approach (July, 2007) .
  2. T. Kuran, The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions (August, 2006) .
  3. T. Kuran, The Logic of the Middle Eastern Capitulations (November, 2005) .
  4. T. Kuran, Islamic Barriers to Ottoman Economic Modernization: The Case of Insurance Markets (September, 2004) .
  5. T. Kuran, Opportunistic Taxation in Middle Eastern History: Islamic Influences on the Evolution of Private Property Rights (August, 2002) .

Other

  1. T. Kuran, Islam and Underdevelopment: Legal Roots of Organizational Retardation in the Middle East (2008) (Book manuscript, working title..) .
  2. T. Kuran, The Political Legacies of Islam (2008) (Book manuscript, working title..) .
  3. T. Kuran, Excerpt of Islam and Mammon: Milken Institute Review, vol. 6 no. 3 (2004), pp. 61-81 .
  4. T. Kuran, Comment on Bill Maurer's “Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives, Anthropology Today, vol. 17 no. 3 (June, 2001), pp. 28-29 .
  5. Julia Simon, ed Timur Kuran, The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause, (2001), University of Michigan Press .
  6. Institutions and Economic Performance: A Conversation between Douglass North and Timur Kuran (May, 2000) (41 minute educational video for the Idea Channel..) .
  7. T. Kuran, Reply to Umer Chapra's comment on article 28, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 10 (Summer, 1996), pp. 195-196 .
  8. 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 .
  9. T. Kuran, Reply to _zay Mehmet's comment on review 12, International Journal of Middle East Studies,, vol. 26 (February, 1994), pp. 175-176 .
  10. 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 .
  11. 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 .
  12. T. Kuran, Reply to Muhammad Khan's comment on article 15, International Journal of Middle East Studies,, vol. 22 (August, 1990), pp. 376-377 .