Books

1. Timur Kuran. Islam and Economic Underdevelopment: Legal Roots of Organizational Stagnation in the Middle East.  Princeton University Press, 2010.
2. Timur Kuran. Al Islam Wal Thara’ Al Malo’un: Ma’zeq Al Iktissad Al Islami.  Riad El-Rayyes Books, 2009. (Arabic translation of 2004 book, Islam and Mammon, with a special preface for Arab readers. Translated by Salah Abdul Haq.)
3. Timur Kuran. Islam and Mammon.  Tulika Press, 2006. (South Asian trade edition)
4. 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)
5. Timur Kuran. Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism.  Princeton University Press, 2004.  [abs]
6. Timur Kuran. İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri.  İletişim Yayınları, 2002. (Turkish translation by Yasemin Tezgiden. With an original introduction)
7. Timur Kuran. Yalanla Yaşamak: Tercih Çarpıtmasının Toplumsal Sonuçları.  YKY, 2001. (Turkish translation by Alp Tümertekin, with an additional preface)
8. Timur Kuran. Privat Sanning, Offentlig Lögn.  City University Press, 1999. (Swedish translation by Margareta Eklöf)
9. Timur Kuran. Leben in Lüge: Präferenzverfälschungen und Ihre Gesellschaftlichen Folgen.  J.C.B. Mohr, 1997. (German translation by Ekkehard Schöller, with an additional preface)
10. Timur Kuran. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification.  Harvard University Press, 1995.

Book Chapters

1. Timur Kuran. "The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions." Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Economic History. Edited by William J. Baumol, David S. Landes, and Joel Mokyr. 2010: 62-87.
2. Timur Kuran. "The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective." Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law. Edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan. 2010: 71-89.
3. Timur Kuran. "Modern Islam and the Economy." . Edited by M. Cook, R. Hefner.  vol. 62010, in press.
4. T. Kuran. "Thomas Schelling." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume. 2nd edition vol. 7,2008: 299-302.
5. Timur Kuran. "Islamic economic institutions." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Edited by Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume. 2nd edition, vol. 4,2008: 299-302.
6. T. Kuran. "Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation." The Development Economics Reader. Edited by G. Secondi. 2008: 107-125. (Reprint of 2004 Journal of Economic Perspectives article.)
7. Timur Kuran. "Islamism and Economics: Policy Implications for a Free Society." Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas. Edited by Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani. 2008. (Updated version of a 1997 paper.)
8. T. Kuran. "Russian translation of Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy." Hristianstvo i Islam ob Ekonomike. Edited by Danila Raskov. 2008.
9. Timur Kuran. "Institutional Causes of Underdevelopment in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective." Institutional Change and Economic Behavior. Edited by János Kornai, Laszlo Matyas, and Gérard Roland. 2008: 64-76.
10. T. Kuran. "Capitalism." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World  vol. 1,2004: 126-28.
11. T. Kuran. "Property." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World  vol. 2,2004: 553-54.
12. T. Kuran. "Riba." Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World  vol. 2,2004: 596-597.
13. T. Kuran. "Levant: Islamic Rule." Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History  vol. 3,2003: 306-14.
14. T. Kuran. "Public opinion, microsociological aspects." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2001: 12556-60.
15. T. Kuran. "Interest." Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World  vol. 2,1995: 205-07.
16. T. Kuran. "Economic Theory." Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World  vol. 1,1995: 397-400.
17. T. Kuran with Jeffrey Nugent. "Economic Development." Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World  vol. 1,1995: 393-97.

Papers Published

1. Timur Kuran. "Explaining the Economic Trajectories of Civilizations: The Systemic Approach." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 71 (September, 2009): 593-605.  [abs]
2. Timur Kuran and William Sandholm. "Cultural Integration and Its Discontents." Review of Economic Studies 75 (2008): 201-228.
3. Timur Kuran and Edward McCaffery. "Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Discrimination." Political Research Quarterly 61 (2008): 228-238.
4. Timur Kuran. "Alle radici del deficit imprenditorialità in Medio Oriente." Biblioteca della libertà 42 (2007): 11-36.
5. Timur Kuran. "Institutional Causes of Underdevelopment in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective." Institutional Change and Economic Behaviour  (2007): 64-76.
6. Timur Kuran. "Asbāb Takhalluf al-Sharq al-Awsat Iqtisadiyyan Al-Āliyyat al-Tārikhiyyah lil-Rukūd al-Mu‘assasatiy."  Arabic translation of Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation   (April, April, 2006). [org]
7. Timur Kuran. "Zhong Dong Di Qu He Yi Jing Ji Luo Hou: Jing Ji Ting Zhi De Li Shi Ji Li."  Chinese translation of Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation Kai Fang Shi Dai 183 (March, March, 2006): 89-105.
8. Timur Kuran. "The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence." American Journal of Comparative Law 53 (July, 2005): 785-834.
9. Timur Kuran. "The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 56 (April, 2005): 593-615.
10. Timur Kuran. "Perché il Medio Oriente è Economicamente Arretrato: Meccanismi Storici di Stagnazione Istituzionale."  Italian translation of Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation QA: Rivista dell' Associazione Manlio Rossi-Doria  (2005): 45-73.
11. Timur Kuran. "The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East."  Reprint Historical Methods in the Social Sciences  (2005).
12. Timur Kuran and Edward McCaffery. "Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web." Social Science Quarterly 85 (September, 2004): 713-730.
13. Timur Kuran. "The Economic Ascent of the Middle East's Religious Minorities: The Role of Islamic Legal Pluralism." Journal of Legal Studies 33 (June, 2004): 475-515.
14. Timur Kuran. "Islamic Statecraft and the Middle East's Delayed Modernization." Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations  (2004): 150-183.
15. Timur Kuran. "Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation." Journal of Economic Perspectives 18 (2004): 71-90.
16. T. Kuran. "Cultural Obstacles to Economic Development: Often Overstated, Usually Transitory." Culture and Public Action: Understanding the Role of Culture and Development Policy in an Unequal World  (2004): 115-137.
17. Timur Kuran. "The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East." Journal of Economic History 63 (June, 2003): 414-446.
18. T. Kuran. "Islamic Redistribution Through Zakat: Historical Record and Modern Realities." Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts  (2003): 275-293.
19. T. Kuran. "The Religious Undertow of Muslim Economic Grievances."  Spanish translation, forthcoming   (2003).
20. T. Kuran. "The Religious Undertow of Muslim Economic Grievances."  Short version available via http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/ Understanding September 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences  (2002): 67-74.
21. T. Kuran. "The Provision of Public Goods under Islamic Law: Origins, Impact, and Limitations of the Waqf System." Law and Society Review 35:4 (December, December, 2001): 841-897.
22. T. Kuran. "Islamic Influences on the Ottoman Guilds." The Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilization 2 (2000): 43-59.
23. T. Kuran. "Osmanlı Lonca Teşkilâtı Üzerinde İslâmî Etkiler."  Turkish translation of Islamic Influences on the Ottoman Guilds Osmanlı  (2000): 97-112.
24. Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein. "Controlling availability cascades." Behavioral Law and Economics  (2000): 374-397.
25. Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein. "Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation." Stanford Law Review 51 (1999): 683-768.
26. Timur Kuran. "Insincere Deliberation and Democratic Failure." Critical Review 12:529-44 (Fall, Fall 1998).
27. T. Kuran. "The Vulnerability of the Arab state: Reflections on the Ayubi thesis." Independent Review 3 (Summer, Summer, 1998): 111-23.
28. T. Kuran. "Ethnic Norms and Their Transformation through Reputational Cascades." Journal of Legal Studies 27 (Summer 1998, pt. 2): 623-59.
29. T. Kuran. "Moral overload and its alleviation." Economics, Values, and Organization  (1998): 231-66.
30. T. Kuran. "Ethnic dissimilation and its international diffusion." Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation  (1998): 35-60.
31. T. Kuran. "Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction." Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory  (1998): 147-71.
32. T. Kuran. "The genesis of Islamic economics: A chapter in the politics of Muslim identity." Social Research 64 (Summer, Summer, 1997): 301-338.
33. T. Kuran. "Islam and Underdevelopment: An Old Puzzle Revisited." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 153 (March, March, 1997): 41-71.
34. T. Kuran. "Islamism and economics: Policy implications for a free society." Islam and Public Policy [International Review of Comparative Public Policy] 9 (1997): 72-102.
35. T. Kuran. "Islamic economics and the clash of civilizations." Middle Eastern Lectures 2 (1997): 25-38.
36. T. Kuran. "The discontents of Islamic economic morality." American Economic Review 86 (May, May, 1996): 438-442.
37. T. Kuran. "Islamic economics and the Islamic subeconomy." Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (Fall, Fall, 1995): 155-73.
38. Timur Kuran. "The inevitability of future revolutionary surprises." American Journal of Sociology 100 (1995): 1528-51.
39. T. Kuran. "Religious economics and the economics of religion." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 149 (December, December, 1994): 769-775.
40. T. Kuran. "Mitigating the tyranny of public opinion: Anonymous discourse and the ethic of sincerity." Constitutional Political Economy 3 (Winter, Winter, 1993): 41-74.
41. T. Kuran. "The unthinkable and the unthought." Rationality and Society 5 (October, October, 1993): 473-505.
42. Timur Kuran. "Seeds of racial explosion." Society 30 (1993): 55-67.
43. T. Kuran. "The economic impact of Islamic fundamentalism." Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Policies, Economies, and Militance  (1993): 302-341.
44. T. Kuran. "Fundamentalisms and the economy." Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Policies, Economies, and Militance  (1993): 289-301.
45. T. Kuran. "Now out of never: The element of surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989." World Politics 44 (October, October, 1991): 7-48.
46. T. Kuran. "Cognitive limitations and preference evolution." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 146 (June, June, 1991): 241-73.
47. T. Kuran. "The East European Revolution of 1989: Is it surprising that we were surprised?." American Economic Review 81 (May, May, 1991): 121-125.
48. T. Kuran. "Private and public preferences." Economics and Philosophy 6 (April, April, 1990): 1-26.
49. T. Kuran. "The role of deception in political competition." The Competitive State  (1990): 71-95.
50. T. Kuran. "On the notion of economic justice in contemporary Islamic thought." Journal of Middle East Studies 21 (May, May, 1989): 171-191.
51. T. Kuran. "Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution." Public Choice 61 (April, April, 1989): 41-74.
52. T. Kuran with Mongi Azabou and Mustapha Nabli. "The wholesale produce market of Tunis and its porters: A tale of market degeneration." The New Institutional Economics and Development: Theory and Applications to Tunisia  (1989): 352-374.
53. T. Kuran. "The craft guilds of Tunis and their amins: A study in institutional atrophy." The New Institutional Economics and Development: Theory and Applications to Tunisia  (1989): 236-264.
54. T. Kuran. "The tenacious past: Theories of personal and collective conservatism." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 100 (September, September, 1988): 143-171.
55. T. Kuran. "Preference falsification, policy continuity and collective conservatism." Economic Journal 97 (September, September, 1987): 642-665.
56. T. Kuran. "Chameleon voters and public choice." Public Choice 53 (1987): 53-78.
57. T. Kuran. "Continuity and change in Islamic economic thought." Pre-Classical Political Economy: From the Greeks to the Scottish Enlightenment  (1987): 103-113.
58. T. Kuran. "Price adjustment costs, anticipated inflation, and output." Quarterly Journal of Economics 101 (May, May, 1986): 407-418.
59. T. Kuran. "The economic system in contemporary Islamic thought: Interpretation and assessment." International Journal of Middle East Studies 18 (May, May, 1986): 135-164.
60. T. Kuran. "Anticipated inflation and aggregate employment: The case of costly price adjustment." Economic Inquiry 24 (April, April, 1986): 293-311.
61. T. Kuran. "Behavioral norms in the Islamic doctrine of economics: A critique." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 44 (December, December, 1983): 353-379.
62. T. Kuran. "Asymmetric price rigidity and inflationary bias." American Economic Review 73 (June, June, 1983): 373-382.
63. T. Kuran. "Internal migration: The unorganized urban sector and income distribution in Turkey, 1963-1973." The Political Economy of Income Distribution in Turkey  (1980): 349-378.
64. T. Kuran. "Technical appendix to “Substitution and structural change”." Structural Change and Development Policy  (August, August, 1979).

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 69 (2009): 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 8 (Spring, Spring, 2002): 144-46.
3. Timur Kuran, "Barbara R. Bergmann, In Defense of Affirmative Action (New York: Basic Books, 1996)". Journal of Economic Literature 35 (March, March, 1997): 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, 30 (December, December, 1996): 182-83.
5. Timur Kuran, "M. Umer Chapra, Islam and the Economic Challenge". Journal of Economic Literature 31 (September, September 1993): 1484-86.
6. Timur Kuran, "M. Casson, The Economics of Business Culture: Game Theory, Transaction Costs, and Economic Performance". Journal of Economic Literature 31 (March, 1993): 234-5.
7. T. Kuran, "A. Rahnema and F. Nomani, The Secular Miracle: Religion, Politics and Economic Policy in Iran". Journal of Islamic Studies 3 (July, July, 1992): 286-8.
8. T. Kuran, "Ö. Mehmet, Islamic Identity and Development: Studies of the Islamic Periphery". International Journal of Middle East Studies 24 (February, February, 1992): 137-40.
9. T. Kuran, "J. A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World". Contemporary Sociology 21 (January, January, 1992): 8-10.
10. T. Kuran, "M. A. Choudhury, Islamic Economic Co-operation". Journal of Comparative Economics 15 (June, June, 1991): 395-8.
11. T. Kuran, "J. Elster, The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order". Journal of Economic Literature 28 (September, September, 1990): 1194-5.
12. T. Kuran, "M.S. Khan and A. Mirakhor, Theoretical Studies in Islamic Banking and Finance". Journal of Comparative Economics 13 (September, September, 1989): 486-9.
13. T. Kuran, "G. Meier, Pioneers in Development: Second Series". Journal of Economic Literature 26 (December, December, 1988): 1753-5.
14. T. Kuran, "T. Scitovsky, Human Desire and Economic Satisfaction". Journal of Economic Literature 25 (December, December, 1987): 1852-4.
15. T. Kuran, "R. Brenner, Betting on Ideas: Wars, Invention, Inflation". Journal of Economic Literature 24 (December, December, 1986): 1802-4.
16. T. Kuran, "M. Syrquin, L. Taylor, and L. Westphal, Economic Structure and Performance". Journal of Economic Literature 24 (June, June, 1986): 687-8.
17. T. Kuran, "K. Ahmad, Studies in Islamic Economics". International Journal of Middle East Studies 17 (May, May, 1985): 261-3.
18. T. Kuran, "J. Elster, Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality". Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 5 (Sept. - Dec.1984): 401-3.
19. T. Kuran, "B. Balassa and associates, Development Strategies in Semi-Industrial Economies". Journal of Economic Literature 21 (December, December, 1983): 1515-7. (Reprinted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese in Economic Impact.)

Other

1. Timur Kuran. "Preface: The economic impact of culture, religion, and the law." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 71:3 (September, 2009): 589-592.
2. Timur Kuran, guest editor. "The Economic Performance of Civilizations: Roles of Culture, Religion, and the Law." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 71 (2009): 589-717.
3. Timur Kuran. "The Political Legacies of Islam."  Book manuscript, working title.   (2008).
4. T. Kuran. "Excerpt of Islam and Mammon: Milken Institute Review."  6:3 (2004): 61-81.
5. T. Kuran. "Comment on Bill Maurer's “Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives." Anthropology Today 17:3 (June, June, 2001): 28-29.
6. Julian Simon, edited by Timur Kuran. "The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause,."   (2001).
7. "Institutions and Economic Performance: A Conversation between Douglass North and Timur Kuran."  41 minute educational video for the Idea Channel.   (May, May, 2000).
8. T. Kuran. "Reply to Umer Chapra's comment on article 28." Journal of Economic Perspectives 10 (Summer, Summer, 1996): 195-196.
9. 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, 27 (June, June, 1995): 159-163.
10. T. Kuran. "Reply to Ozay Mehmet's comment on review 12." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 26 (February, February, 1994): 175-176.
11. 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): 50-53.
12. T. Kuran. "Why revolutions are better understood than predicted: The role of preference falsification” [Comment on an article by Nikki Keddie]." Contention, 3 (Spring, Spring, 1992): 199-207.
13. T. Kuran. "Reply to Muhammad Khan's comment on article 15." International Journal of Middle East Studies, 22 (August, August, 1990): 376-377.

Working Papers