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Publications of Timur Kuran     :recent first  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

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

Book Reviews

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

Other

  1. T. Kuran, Reply to Muhammad Khan's comment on article 15, International Journal of Middle East Studies,, vol. 22 (August, 1990), pp. 376-377
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. T. Kuran, Reply to Ozay Mehmet's comment on review 12, International Journal of Middle East Studies,, vol. 26 (February, 1994), pp. 175-176
  5. 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
  6. T. Kuran, Reply to Umer Chapra's comment on article 28, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 10 (Summer, 1996), pp. 195-196
  7. Institutions and Economic Performance: A Conversation between Douglass North and Timur Kuran (May, 2000) (41 minute educational video for the Idea Channel..)
  8. Julia Simon, ed Timur Kuran, The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause, (2001), University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
  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. T. Kuran, Excerpt of Islam and Mammon: Milken Institute Review, vol. 6 no. 3 (2004), pp. 61-81
  11. T. Kuran, Islam and Underdevelopment: Legal Roots of Organizational Stagnation in the Middle East (2008) (Book manuscript, working title..)
  12. T. Kuran, The Political Legacies of Islam (2008) (Book manuscript, working title..)
  13. 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
  14. 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

Journal Articles

  1. T. Kuran, Technical appendix to “Substitution and structural change”, in Structural Change and Development Policy (August, 1979)
  2. 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
  3. T. Kuran, Asymmetric price rigidity and inflationary bias, American Economic Review, vol. 73 (June, 1983), pp. 373-382
  4. 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
  5. T. Kuran, Anticipated inflation and aggregate employment: The case of costly price adjustment, Economic Inquiry, vol. 24 (April, 1986), pp. 293-311
  6. T. Kuran, Price adjustment costs, anticipated inflation, and output, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 101 (May, 1986), pp. 407-418
  7. 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
  8. T. Kuran, Chameleon voters and public choice, Public Choice, vol. 53 (1987), pp. 53-78
  9. 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
  10. T. Kuran, Preference falsification, policy continuity and collective conservatism, Economic Journal, vol. 97 (September, 1987), pp. 642-665
  11. T. Kuran, The tenacious past: Theories of personal and collective conservatism, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 100 (September, 1988), pp. 143-171
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. T. Kuran, Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution, Public Choice, vol. 61 (April, 1989), pp. 41-74
  15. T. Kuran, On the notion of economic justice in contemporary Islamic thought, Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 21 (May, 1989), pp. 171-191
  16. 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
  17. T. Kuran, Private and public preferences, Economics and Philosophy, vol. 6 (April, 1990), pp. 1-26
  18. 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
  19. T. Kuran, Cognitive limitations and preference evolution, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 146 (June, 1991), pp. 241-73
  20. 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
  21. Timur Kuran, Seeds of racial explosion, Society, vol. 30 (1993), pp. 55-67
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. T. Kuran, The unthinkable and the unthought, Rationality and Society, vol. 5 (October, 1993), pp. 473-505
  25. 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
  26. T. Kuran, Religious economics and the economics of religion, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 149 (December, 1994), pp. 769-775
  27. Timur Kuran, The inevitability of future revolutionary surprises, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 100 (1995), pp. 1528-51
  28. T. Kuran, Islamic economics and the Islamic subeconomy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 9 (Fall, 1995), pp. 155-73
  29. T. Kuran, The discontents of Islamic economic morality, American Economic Review, vol. 86 (May, 1996), pp. 438-442
  30. 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.
  31. T. Kuran, Islamic economics and the clash of civilizations, Middle Eastern Lectures, vol. 2 (1997), pp. 25-38
  32. T. Kuran, Islam and Underdevelopment: An Old Puzzle Revisited, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 153 (March, 1997), pp. 41-71
  33. T. Kuran, The genesis of Islamic economics: A chapter in the politics of Muslim identity, Social Research, vol. 64 (Summer, 1997), pp. 301-338
  34. T. Kuran, Ethnic Norms and Their Transformation through Reputational Cascades, Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 27 (Summer 1998, pt. 2), pp. 623-59
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. T. Kuran, The Vulnerability of the Arab state: Reflections on the Ayubi thesis, Independent Review, vol. 3 (Summer, 1998), pp. 111-23
  39. Timur Kuran, Insincere Deliberation and Democratic Failure, Critical Review, vol. 12 no. 529-44 (Fall 1998)
  40. Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein, Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation, Stanford Law Review, vol. 51 (1999), pp. 683-768
  41. 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
  42. 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.)
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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/.)
  46. 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
  47. T. Kuran, The Religious Undertow of Muslim Economic Grievances (2003), Siglo XXI (Spanish translation, forthcoming.)
  48. 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
  49. 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.
  50. Timur Kuran, Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 18 (2004), pp. 71-90
  51. 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
  52. 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
  53. Timur Kuran and Edward McCaffery, Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web, Social Science Quarterly, vol. 85 (2004), pp. 713-730
  54. 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.)
  55. 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.)
  56. Timur Kuran, The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 56 (2005), pp. 593-615
  57. Timur Kuran, The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence, American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 53 (2005), pp. 785-834
  58. 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.)
  59. 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]
  60. Timur Kuran, Alle radici del deficit imprenditorialità in Medio Oriente, Biblioteca della libertà, vol. 42 (2007), pp. 11-36
  61. 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
  62. Timur Kuran and William Sandholm, Cultural Integration and Its Discontents, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 75 (2008), pp. 201-228
  63. Timur Kuran and Edward McCaffery, Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Discrimination, Political Research Quarterly, vol. 61 (2008), pp. 228-238
  64. Timur Kuran, Explaining the Economic Trajectories of Civilizations: The Systemic Approach, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 71 (2009), pp. 593-605  [abs]
  65. Timur Kuran, Modern Islam and the Economy, edited by M. Cook, R. Hefner, New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 6 (2010, in press), Cambridge University Press (In press.)

Chapters in Books

  1. T. Kuran, Interest, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 2, (1995), pp. 205-07
  2. T. Kuran, Economic Theory, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, (1995), pp. 397-400
  3. T. Kuran with Jeffrey Nugent, Economic Development, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, (1995), pp. 393-97
  4. T. Kuran, Public opinion, microsociological aspects, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001), pp. 12556-60
  5. T. Kuran, Levant: Islamic Rule, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, vol. 3, (2003), pp. 306-14
  6. T. Kuran, Capitalism, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 1, (2004), pp. 126-28, Macmillan Reference, New York
  7. T. Kuran, Property, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2, (2004), pp. 553-54
  8. T. Kuran, Riba, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2, (2004), pp. 596-597
  9. T. 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..)
  10. 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
  11. T. 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
  12. T. 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
  13. T. 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
  14. T. 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..)
  15. 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 (2009), pp. 62-87, Princeton University Press, Princeton
  16. 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 (2009), pp. 71-89, Routledge

Working Papers

  1. T. Kuran, Opportunistic Taxation in Middle Eastern History: Islamic Influences on the Evolution of Private Property Rights (August, 2002)
  2. T. Kuran, Islamic Barriers to Ottoman Economic Modernization: The Case of Insurance Markets (September, 2004)
  3. T. Kuran, The Logic of the Middle Eastern Capitulations (November, 2005)