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Publications of Timur Kuran    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Kuran, T, The long divergence: How Islamic law held back the Middle East (November, 2012), pp. 1-405, Princeton University Press  [abs].
  2. Aptullah Kuran, Selçuklular’dan Cumhuriyet’e Türkiye’de Mimarlık / Architecture in Turkey from the Seljuks to the Republic, edited by Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu, Lucienne Thys-Şenocak, and Timur Kuran (2012), İş Bank Publications (önsöz/preface by Timur Kuran, giriş/introduction by Kafesçioğlu and Thys-Şenocak.) .
  3. Masahiko Aoki, Timur Kuran, and Gerard Roland (editors), Institutions and Patterns of Economic Development: Proceedings of the Sixteenth World Congress of the International Economic Association, vol. 1 (2012), Palgrave Macmillan .
  4. Timur Kuran, Al Islam Wal Thara’al-Fahish: Ma’zaq Al Iqtisad al-Islami (Amman: al-Ahliyya (2012), Al-Ahliyya (Arabic translation of 2004 book, Islam and Mammon, with a special preface for Arab readers..) .
  5. Timur Kuran, Yollar Ayrılırken: Orta Doğu’nun Geri Kalma Sürecinde İslam Hukuku’nun Rolü (2012), YKY .
  6. Kuran, T, Islam and mammon: The economic predicaments of islamism (December, 2010), pp. 1-194  [abs].
  7. 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. 1-10 (2010-13), Istanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, .
  8. Timur Kuran, Islam and Mammon (2006), Tulika Press (South Asian trade edition.) .
  9. 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.) .
  10. Timur Kuran, Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (2004), Princeton University Press .
  11. Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (2002), İletişim Yayınları (Turkish translation by Yasemin Tezgiden. With an original introduction.) .
  12. Timur Kuran, Yalanla Yaşamak: Tercih Çarpıtmasının Toplumsal Sonuçları (2001), YKY (Turkish translation by Alp Tümertekin, with an additional preface.) .
  13. Timur Kuran, Privat Sanning, Offentlig Lögn (1999), City University Press (Swedish translation by Margareta Eklöf.) .
  14. Timur Kuran, Leben in Lüge: Präferenzverfälschungen und Ihre Gesellschaftlichen Folgen (1997), J.C.B. Mohr (German translation by Ekkehard Schöller, with an additional preface.) .
  15. Timur Kuran, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995), Harvard University Press .

Chapters in Books

  1. Kuran, T; Romero, D, THE LOGIC OF REVOLUTIONS: Rational Choice Perspectives, in The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice: Volume 2, vol. 2 (January, 2019), pp. 345-360 [doi]  [abs].
  2. T. Kuran, Banks and Banking, in Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd. ed. (2014), Brill .
  3. Kuran, T, The rule of law in Islamic thought and practice: A historical perspective, in Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law (January, 2013), pp. 71-90, Routledge [doi] .
  4. Timur Kuran, "Interview with Vincent Hendricks", in Socio-Epistemic Phenomena: 5 Questions, edited by Rasmus K. Rendsvig and Vincent F. Hendricks (2013), pp. in press, Automatic Press / VIP .
  5. Kuran, T, The scale of entrepreneurship in middle eastern history: Inhibitive roles of Islamic institutions, in The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times (February, 2012), pp. 62-87 .
  6. Timur Kuran, Public opinion, in Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (2012), pp. 435-36, Princeton University Press .
  7. Timur Kuran, Economic theory, in Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (2012), pp. 142-44, Princeton University Press .
  8. Timur Kuran, Political Consequences of the Middle East’s Economic Legacy, in Institutions and Patterns of Economic Development: Proceedings of the Sixteenth World Congress of the International Economic Association, vol. 1, edited by Masahoki Aoki, Timur Kuran, and Gerard Roland (2012), pp. 99-115, Palgrave-Macmillan .
  9. Kuran, T, Economic underdevelopment in the Middle East: The historical roles of culture, institutions and religion, in Culture, Institutions, and Development: New Insights Into an Old Debate (October, 2010), pp. 87-102, Routledge [doi] .
  10. Kuran, T, Modern Islam and the economy, in The New Cambridge History of Islam: Muslims and Modernity Culture and Society Since 1800, edited by Michael Cook, Robert Hefner, vol. 6 (January, 2010), pp. 473-494, Cambridge University Press [doi]  [abs].
  11. 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 .
  12. 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 .
  13. 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 .
  14. 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 .
  15. 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 (Reprint of 2004 Journal of Economic Perspectives article..) .
  16. 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 (Updated version of a 1997 paper..) .
  17. T. Kuran, Russian translation of Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy, in Hristianstvo i Islam ob Ekonomike, edited by Danila Raskov (2008), NPK Rost .
  18. 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 .
  19. Kuran, T, Islamic statecraft and the middle east’s delayed modernization, in Political Competition, Innovation and Growth in the History of Asian Civilizations (January, 2004), pp. 180-183 [doi]  [abs].
  20. T. Kuran, Capitalism, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 1, (2004), pp. 126-28, Macmillan Reference .
  21. T. Kuran, Property, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2, (2004), pp. 553-54 .
  22. T. Kuran, Riba, in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2, (2004), pp. 596-597 .
  23. T. Kuran, Levant: Islamic Rule, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, vol. 3, (2003), pp. 306-14 .
  24. T. Kuran, Public opinion, microsociological aspects, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2001), pp. 12556-60 .
  25. T. Kuran, Interest, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 2, (1995), pp. 205-07 .
  26. T. Kuran, Economic Theory, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, (1995), pp. 397-400 .
  27. T. Kuran with Jeffrey Nugent, Economic Development, in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, (1995), pp. 393-97 .

Journal Articles

  1. Enikolopov, R; Kuran, T; Li, H, Changes to our editorial board, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 52 no. 3 (September, 2024), pp. 591 [doi] .
  2. Enikolopov, R; Kuran, T; Li, H, Changes to JCE's board of associate editors, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 51 no. 1 (March, 2023), pp. 1 [doi] .
  3. Kuran, T, Zakat: Islam’s missed opportunity to limit predatory taxation, Public Choice, vol. 182 no. 3-4 (March, 2020), pp. 395-416 [doi]  [abs].
  4. Kuran, T, Islam and economic performance: Historical and contemporary links, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 56 (December, 2018), pp. 1292-1359 [doi]  [abs].
  5. Enikolopov, R; Kuran, T; Li, H, Statement by New Editors, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 45 no. 1 (February, 2017), pp. iii-iv, Elsevier BV [doi] .
  6. Kuran, T, Legal roots of authoritarian rule in the middle east: Civic legacies of the islamic waqf, American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 64 no. 2 (July, 2016), pp. 419-454, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs].
  7. Kuran, T; Rubin, J, The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Partial Rule of Law, The Economic Journal, vol. 128 no. 609 (June, 2016), pp. 758-796, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi] .
  8. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 5, pg 584, 2010), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 437-437, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS .
  9. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 9, pg 529, 2013), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 437-437, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS .
  10. Kuran, T, A comment on Ali Yaycioǧlu's review of Timur Kuran, Ed., Social and economic life in seventeenth-century Istanbul: Glimpses from court records, vols. 1-10 (IJMES 47 [2015]: 625-27), International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 48 no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 429-432, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs].
  11. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 7, pg 677, 2012), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 437-437, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS .
  12. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 2, pg 659, 2010), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 437-437, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS .
  13. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 3, pg 544, 2011), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 437-437, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS .
  14. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 4, pg 708, 2010), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 437-437, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS .
  15. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 8, pg 651, 2012), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 437-437, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS .
  16. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 10, pg 497, 2013), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (May, 2016), pp. 437-437, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS .
  17. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 10, pg 497, 2013), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (2016), pp. 437-437 .
  18. Kuran, T, Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records (vol 8, pg 651, 2012), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 48 no. 2 (2016), pp. 437-437 .
  19. Çokgezen, M; Kuran, T, Between Consumer Demand and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 43 no. 4 (November, 2015), pp. 862-882, Elsevier BV [doi] .
  20. Kuran, T, Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf no. 171 (June, 2014)  [abs].
  21. Kuran, T; Singh, A, Economic modernization in late British India: Hindu-Muslim differences, Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 61 no. 3 (April, 2013), pp. 503-538, University of Chicago Press [doi]  [abs].
  22. Timur Kuran, Religious Obstacles to Democratization in the Middle East: Past and Present, The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations, vol. 5 (2013), pp. in press .
  23. Timur Kuran, The Political Consequences of Islam’s Economic Legacy, edited by Ferrara, A; Kaul, V; Rasmussen, D, Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 39 no. 4-5 (2013), pp. in press, SAGE Publications [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs].
  24. Kuran, T, Synergies between middle eastern economic history and the analytic social sciences, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 44 no. 3 (August, 2012), pp. 542-545, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] .
  25. Kuran, T, Association Lecture—The Economic Roots of Political Underdevelopment in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 78 no. 4 (April, 2012), pp. 1086-1095, WILEY [doi]  [abs].
  26. Kuran, T; Lustig, S, Judicial Biases in Ottoman Istanbul: Islamic Justice and Its Compatibility with Modern Economic Life, JOURNAL OF LAW & ECONOMICS, vol. 55 no. 3 (2012), pp. 631-666, University of Chicago Press [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  27. Timur Kuran, West is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall, Foreign Affairs, vol. 90 (January, 2011), pp. 159-163 .
  28. Kuran, T, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa. By Ghislaine Lydon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxviii, 468. $95.00., The Journal of Economic History, vol. 69 no. 4 (December, 2009), pp. 1182-1184, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] .
  29. Kuran, T, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa. By Ghislaine Lydon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxviii, 468. $95.00., The Journal of Economic History, vol. 69 no. 04 (December, 2009), pp. 1182-1184 .
  30. Kuran, T, Preface: The economic impact of culture, religion and the law, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 71 no. 3 (September, 2009), pp. 589-592, Elsevier BV [doi] .
  31. Kuran, T, Explaining the economic trajectories of civilizations: The systemic approach, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 71 no. 3 (September, 2009), pp. 593-605, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs].
  32. Kuran, PT, Sous-déloppement économique au moyen-orient: Le rôle historique de la culture, des institutions et de la religion, Afrique Contemporaine, vol. 226 no. 2 (November, 2008), pp. 31-54, CAIRN [doi]  [abs].
  33. Kuran, T, Institutional Causes of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East: a Historical Perspective, edited by Kornai, J; Matyas, L; Roland, G, INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR (January, 2008), pp. 64-76, PALGRAVE .
  34. Kuran, T; Sandholm, WH, Cultural integration and its discontents, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 75 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 201-228, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs].
  35. Kuran, T; McCaffery, E, Sex Differences in Attitudes toward Discrimination, Political Research Quarterly, vol. 61 no. 2 (2008), pp. 228-238, SAGE Publications [doi]  [abs].
  36. 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 .
  37. Timur Kuran, Alle radici del deficit imprenditorialità in Medio Oriente, Biblioteca della libertà, vol. 42 (2007), pp. 11-36 .
  38. Kuran, T, Islamism and economics: Policy prescriptions for a free society (September, 2006), pp. 38-65 [doi] .
  39. 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] .
  40. 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.) .
  41. Kuran, T, The logic of financial westernization in the Middle East, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 56 no. 4 SPEC. ISS. (January, 2005), pp. 593-615, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs].
  42. Kuran, T, The absence of the corporation in Islamic law: Origins and persistence, American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 53 no. 4 (January, 2005), pp. 785-834, Oxford University Press (OUP) [repository], [doi]  [abs].
  43. 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.) .
  44. 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.) .
  45. Kuran, T; Bernholz, P; Cook, M; Elvin, M; Huff, TE; Humphreys, RS; Weede, E, Islamic statecraft and the Middle East's delayed modernization, edited by P. Bernholz and R. Vaubel (December, 2004), pp. 150-216, Edward Elgar Publishing [doi] .
  46. Kuran, T; McCaffery, EJ, Expanding discrimination research: Beyond ethnicity and to the web, Social Science Quarterly, vol. 85 no. 3 (September, 2004), pp. 713-730, WILEY [doi]  [abs].
  47. Kuran, T, Why the Middle East is economically underdeveloped: Historical mechanisms of institutional stagnation, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 18 no. 3 (June, 2004), pp. 71-90, American Economic Association [doi] .
  48. Kuran, T, The economic ascent of the Middle East's religious minorities: The role of Islamic legal pluralism, Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 33 no. 2 (June, 2004), pp. 475-515, University of Chicago Press [doi]  [abs].
  49. 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 .
  50. Kuran, T, Islamic redistribution through zakat historical record and modern realities, edited by M. Bonner, M. Ener and A. Singer (December, 2003), pp. 275-293, State University of New York Press [Gateway.cgi]  [abs].
  51. Kuran, T, The Islamic commercial crisis: Institutional roots of economic underdevelopment in the Middle East, Journal of Economic History, vol. 63 no. 2 (June, 2003), pp. 414-446, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [repository], [doi]  [abs].
  52. T. Kuran, The Religious Undertow of Muslim Economic Grievances (2003), Siglo XXI (Spanish translation, forthcoming.) .
  53. 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/.) .
  54. Kuran, T, The provision of public goods under Islamic law: origins, impact, and limitations of the waqf system., Law & society review, vol. 35 no. 4 (January, 2001), pp. 841-897 [17867230], [doi] .
  55. 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 .
  56. 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.) .
  57. 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 .
  58. Kuran, T; Sunstein, CR, Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation, Stanford Law Review, vol. 51 no. 4 (January, 1999), pp. 683, JSTOR [doi]  [abs].
  59. Timur Kuran, Insincere Deliberation and Democratic Failure, Critical Review, vol. 12 no. 529-44 (Fall, 1998), pp. 529-544, Informa UK Limited [doi]  [abs].
  60. Kuran, T, The Vulnerability of the Arab state: Reflections on the Ayubi thesis, Independent Review, vol. 3 (Summer, 1998), pp. 111-123 .
  61. Kuran, T, L’islam et le sous-developpement: Un vieux puzzle revisite, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, vol. 8 no. 1 (January, 1998), pp. 27-60, WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH [doi] .
  62. Kuran, T, Ethnic norms and their transformation through reputational cascades, Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 27 no. 2 PART II (January, 1998), pp. 623, University of Chicago Press [doi]  [abs].
  63. 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 .
  64. 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 .
  65. 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 .
  66. Kuran, T, Islam and Underdevelopment: An Old Puzzle Revisited, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, vol. 153 no. 1 (March, 1997), pp. 41-71  [abs].
  67. Kuran, T, In defense of affirmative action - Bergmann,BR, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 35 no. 1 (March, 1997), pp. 153-155, AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC .
  68. Kuran, T, Private truths, public lies: The social consequences of preference falsification, Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 8 no. 1 (January, 1997), pp. 89-95 [doi] .
  69. Kuran, T, The genesis of Islamic economics: A chapter in the politics of Muslim identity, Social Research, vol. 64 no. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 281-338 [Gateway.cgi] .
  70. 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 .
  71. Kuran, T, Islamic economics and the clash of civilizations, Middle Eastern Lectures, vol. 2 (1997), pp. 25-38 .
  72. Kuran, T, The Discontents of Islamic Economic Morality, American Economic Review, vol. 86 no. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 438-442 [repository] .
  73. Kuran, T, Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 9 no. 4 (Fall, 1995), pp. 155-173, American Economic Association [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs].
  74. Kuran, T, The Inevitability of Future Revolutionary Surprises, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 100 no. 6 (May, 1995), pp. 1528-1551, University of Chicago Press [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  75. Kuran, T, Further reflections on the behavioral norms of Islamic economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 27 no. 1 (January, 1995), pp. 159-163, Elsevier BV [doi] .
  76. KURAN, T, RELIGIOUS ECONOMICS AND THE ECONOMICS OF RELIGION, JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL ECONOMICS-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE GESAMTE STAATSWISSENSCHAFT, vol. 150 no. 4 (December, 1994), pp. 769-775, J C B MOHR [Gateway.cgi] .
  77. KURAN, T, ISLAMIC IDENTITY AND DEVELOPMENT - STUDIES OF THE ISLAMIC PERIPHERY - REPLY, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 26 no. 1 (February, 1994), pp. 175-176, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS .
  78. Kuran, T, Mitigating the tyranny of public opinion: Anonymous discourse and the ethic of sincerity, Constitutional Political Economy, vol. 4 no. 1 (Winter, 1993), pp. 41-78, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs].
  79. Kuran, T, Seeds of racial explosion, Society, vol. 30 no. 6 (September, 1993), pp. 55-67, Springer Nature [doi] .
  80. KURAN, T, ISLAM AND THE ECONOMIC-CHALLENGE - CHAPRA,MU, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 31 no. 3 (September, 1993), pp. 1484-1486, AMER ECON ASSN .
  81. KURAN, T, THE ECONOMICS OF BUSINESS CULTURE - GAME-THEORY, TRANSACTION COSTS, AND ECONOMIC-PERFORMANCE - CASSON,M, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 31 no. 1 (March, 1993), pp. 234-235, AMER ECON ASSN .
  82. Kuran, T, The Unthinkable and the Unthought, Rationality and Society, vol. 5 no. 4 (January, 1993), pp. 473-505, SAGE Publications [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs].
  83. 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 .
  84. 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 .
  85. Kuran, T, Özay Mehmet, Islamic Identity and Development: Studies of the Islamic Periphery (London: Routledge, 1990). Pp. 268., International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 24 no. 1 (February, 1992), pp. 137-140, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] .
  86. Kuran, T; Goldstone, JA, Explanatory Success Does Not Imply Predictive Power, Contemporary Sociology, vol. 21 no. 1 (January, 1992), pp. 8-8, SAGE Publications [doi] .
  87. KURAN, T, COGNITIVE LIMITATIONS AND PREFERENCE EVOLUTION, JOURNAL OF INSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL ECONOMICS-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE GESAMTE STAATSWISSENSCHAFT, vol. 147 no. 2 (June, 1991), pp. 241-273, J C B MOHR [Gateway.cgi] .
  88. Kuran, T, Islamic economic co-operation, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 15 no. 2 (June, 1991), pp. 395-398, Elsevier BV [doi] .
  89. Kuran, T, The East European Revolution of 1989: Is It Surprising That We Were Surprised?, American Economic Review, vol. 81 no. 2 (May, 1991), pp. 121-125 [Gateway.cgi] .
  90. Kuran, T, The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989, World Politics, vol. 44 no. 1 (January, 1991), pp. 7-48, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  91. KURAN, T, THE CEMENT OF SOCIETY - A STUDY OF SOCIAL-ORDER - ELSTER,J, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 28 no. 3 (September, 1990), pp. 1194-1195, AMER ECON ASSN .
  92. Kuran, T, Private and public preferences, Economics and Philosophy, vol. 6 no. 1 (January, 1990), pp. 1-26, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  93. KURAN, T, ON THE NOTION OF ECONOMIC-JUSTICE IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC THOUGHT - REPLY, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, vol. 22 no. 3 (1990), pp. 376-377, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] .
  94. Kuran, T, Theoretical studies in islamic banking and finance, Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 13 no. 3 (September, 1989), pp. 486-489, Elsevier BV [doi] .
  95. Kuran, T, Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution, Public Choice, vol. 61 no. 1 (April, 1989), pp. 41-74, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs].
  96. Kuran, T, On the notion of economic justice in contemporary islamic thought, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 21 no. 2 (January, 1989), pp. 171-191, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  97. 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 .
  98. 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 .
  99. KURAN, T, THE ROLE OF DECEPTION IN POLITICAL COMPETITION., in The Competitive State, edited by A. Breton, G. Galeotti, P. Salmon, and R. Wintrobe (1989), pp. 71-95, Kluwer-Nijhoff .
  100. KURAN, T, PIONEERS IN DEVELOPMENT - MEIER,GM, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 26 no. 4 (December, 1988), pp. 1753-1755, AMER ECON ASSN .
  101. Kuran, T, The tenacious past: Theories of personal and collective conservatism, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 10 no. 2 (January, 1988), pp. 143-171, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs].
  102. KURAN, T, HUMAN DESIRE AND ECONOMIC SATISFACTION - ESSAYS ON THE FRONTIERS OF ECONOMICS - SCITOVSKY,T, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 25 no. 4 (December, 1987), pp. 1852-1854, AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC .
  103. Kuran, T, Preference Falsification, Policy Continuity and Collective Conservatism, The Economic Journal, vol. 97 no. 387 (September, 1987), pp. 642-642, Oxford University Press (OUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  104. Kuran, T, Chameleon voters and public choice, Public Choice, vol. 53 no. 1 (January, 1987), pp. 53-78, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs].
  105. 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 .
  106. KURAN, T, BETTING ON IDEAS - WARS, INVENTION, INFLATION - BRENNER,R, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 24 no. 4 (December, 1986), pp. 1802-1804, AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC .
  107. KURAN, T, ECONOMIC-STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE - ESSAYS IN HONOR OF CHENERY,HOLLIS,B. - SYRQUIN,M, TAYLOR,L, WESTPHAL,LE, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 24 no. 2 (June, 1986), pp. 687-688, AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC .
  108. KURAN, T, ANTICIPATED INFLATION AND AGGREGATE EMPLOYMENT: THE CASE OF COSTLY PRICE ADJUSTMENT, Economic Inquiry, vol. 24 no. 2 (January, 1986), pp. 293-311, WILEY [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs].
  109. Kuran, T, The Economic System In Contemporary Islamic Thought: Interpretation And Assessment, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 18 no. 2 (January, 1986), pp. 135-164, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  110. Kuran, T, Price adjustment costs, anticipated inflation, and output, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 101 no. 2 (January, 1986), pp. 407-418, Oxford University Press (OUP) [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
  111. Kuran, T, Khurshid Ahmad, ed., Studies in Islamic Economics, Published for the International Center for Research in Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah (Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1980). Pp. 413., International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 17 no. 2 (May, 1985), pp. 261-263, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] .
  112. Kuran, T, Sour grapes: Studies in the subversion of rationality, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 5 no. 3-4 (September, 1984), pp. 401-403, Elsevier BV [doi] .
  113. Kuran, T, Asymmetric Price Rigidity and Inflationary Bias., American Economic Review, vol. 73 no. 3 (June, 1983), pp. 373-382 [Gateway.cgi] .
  114. Kuran, T, Behavioral norms in the Islamic doctrine of economics. A critique, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 4 no. 4 (January, 1983), pp. 353-379, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs].
  115. KURAN, T, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN SEMI-INDUSTRIAL ECONOMIES - BALASSA,B, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 21 no. 4 (January, 1983), pp. 1515-1517, AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC .
  116. 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 .
  117. T. Kuran, Technical appendix to “Substitution and structural change”, in Structural Change and Development Policy (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, 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 .
  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 .
  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, 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..) .

Other

  1. Timur Kuran, Arap Demokrasilerinin Zayıf Temelleri, Optimist (November, 2012), pp. 92-93 .
  2. Timur Kuran, Building Arab Civil Society to Promote Economic Growth, in The Compendium on Unemployment in the Arab World 2012, World Economic Forum, 4-6 (June 2012), pp. 15-17 .
  3. 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 .
  4. Timur Kuran, The Weak Foundations of Arab Democracy, New York Times (May 29, 2011) [29kuran.html] .
  5. Timur Kuran, Legal Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East, European Financial Review (February, 2011) .
  6. Timur Kuran, Excerpt of Long Divergence, Milken Institute Review, vol. 13 (2011), pp. 59-76 .
  7. 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 .
  8. Timur Kuran, The Political Legacies of Islam (2008) (Book manuscript, working title..) .
  9. Timur Kuran, Excerpt of Islam and Mammon: Milken Institute Review, vol. 6 no. 3 (2004), pp. 61-81 .
  10. T. Kuran, Comment on Bill Maurer's “Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives, Anthropology Today, vol. 17 no. 3 (June, 2001), pp. 28-29 .
  11. Julian Simon, edited by Timur Kuran, The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause, (2001), University of Michigan Press .
  12. Institutions and Economic Performance: A Conversation between Douglass North and Timur Kuran (May, 2000) (41 minute educational video for the Idea Channel..) .
  13. T. Kuran, Reply to Umer Chapra's comment on article 28, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 10 (Summer, 1996), pp. 195-196 .
  14. 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 .
  15. 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 .
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