Timur Kuran
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- PhD Economics Stanford University
- Bachelors Economics Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Timur Kuran is a Turkish-American economist and political scientist, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His work spans economics, political science, history, and law.
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- Now out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989 (1991) (1069)
- Sparks and prairie fires: A theory of unanticipated political revolution (1989) (719)
- Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation (1999) (643)
- Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995) (521)
- Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation (2004) (469)
- The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (2010) (371)
- Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (2004) (353)
- The provision of public goods under Islamic law: origins, impact, and limitations of the waqf system. (2001) (292)
- Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy (1995) (265)
- PREFERENCE FALSIFICATION, POLICY CONTINUITY AND COLLECTIVE CONSERVATISM* (1987) (226)
- The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East (2002) (203)
- The Inevitability of Future Revolutionary Surprises (1995) (202)
- Ethnic Norms And Their Transformation Through Reputational Cascades (1998) (183)
- Islam and Underdevelopment: An Old Puzzle Revisited (1997) (179)
- The Absence of the Corporation in Islamic Law: Origins and Persistence (2005) (165)
- The tenacious past: Theories of personal and collective conservatism (1988) (157)
- Cultural Integration and its Discontents (2006) (145)
- The East European Revolution of 1989: Is It Surprising That We Were Surprised? (1991) (136)
- The Economic Ascent of the Middle East’s Religious Minorities: The Role of Islamic Legal Pluralism (2004) (127)
- The Economic System in Contemporary Islamic Thought: Interpretation and Assessment (1986) (118)
- The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East (2005) (92)
- The genesis of Islamic economics : A chapter in the politics of Muslim identity (2004) (89)
- Private and Public Preferences (1990) (84)
- The Discontents of Islamic Economic Morality (1996) (81)
- On the Notion of Economic Justice in Contemporary Islamic Thought (1989) (77)
- Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links (2018) (74)
- Behavioral norms in the Islamic doctrine of economics: A critique (1983) (65)
- Explaining the Economic Trajectories of Civilizations: The Systemic Approach (2008) (57)
- The Long Divergence (2012) (54)
- Chameleon voters and public choice (1987) (51)
- The Provision of Public Goods Under Islamic Law: Origins, Contributions, and Limitations of the Waqf System (2001) (50)
- Social mechanisms of dissonance reduction (1998) (49)
- Islam and Mammon (2004) (49)
- Asymmetric Price Rigidity and Inflationary Bias (1983) (47)
- The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions (2008) (45)
- Judicial Biases in Ottoman Istanbul: Islamic Justice and Its Compatibility with Modern Economic Life (2012) (41)
- Price Adjustment Costs, Anticipated Inflation, and Output (1986) (39)
- Contemporary Islamic Economic Thought: A Selected Comparative Analysis, by Mohamed Aslam Haneef. 153 pages, tables, bibliography, index, glossary. Selangor, Malaysia: Ikraq, 1995. ISBN 983-99604-4x (1996) (33)
- The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause (2000) (32)
- The Economic System in Contemporary Islamic Thought (1992) (31)
- Further reflections on the behavioral norms of Islamic economics (1995) (30)
- Legal Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf (2016) (26)
- The Unthinkable and the Unthought (1993) (26)
- Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences (2010) (26)
- Zakat: Islam’s missed opportunity to limit predatory taxation (2019) (26)
- Sex Differences in the Acceptability of Discrimination (2007) (25)
- Institutions and Comparative Economic Development (2012) (25)
- Economics, values, and organization: Moral overload and its alleviation (1998) (23)
- The political consequences of Islam’s economic legacy (2013) (23)
- Ethnic Dissimilation and Its International Diffusion (2020) (21)
- Insincere deliberation and democratic failure (1998) (21)
- Between Consumer Demand and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey (2015) (20)
- Human Desire and Economic Satisfaction (1987) (20)
- Islam and the Economic Challenge (1993) (19)
- Institutional Causes of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East: a Historical Perspective (2008) (18)
- Mitigating the tyranny of public opinion: Anonymous discourse and the ethic of sincerity (1993) (17)
- The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Partial Rule of Law (2016) (16)
- Mahkeme kayıtları ışığında 17. yüzyıl İstanbul'unda sosyo-ekonomik yaşam = Social and economic life in seventeenth-century Istanbul : glimpses from court records (2010) (16)
- Association Lecture—The Economic Roots of Political Underdevelopment in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective (2012) (14)
- The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio�?Economic Status and Interest Rates Under Partial Rule of Law (2018) (12)
- Preface: The economic impact of culture, religion and the law (2009) (12)
- The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice : A Historical Perspective (2008) (11)
- Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives (2001) (11)
- The Craft Guilds of Tunis and their Amins: A Study in Institutional Atrophy (1989) (11)
- Forum Series on the Role of Institutions in Promoting Economic Growth (2003) (11)
- Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East: The Historical Roles of Culture, Institutions, and Religion (2008) (10)
- Salute to Schelling: Keeping It Human (2005) (10)
- [The Economic Roots of Political Underdevelopment in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective] Ortadoðu’daki Politik Az Geliþmiþliðin Ekonomik Kökenleri: Tarihsel Bir Bakýþ Açýsý (2014) (9)
- Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web (2004) (8)
- Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society (2014) (8)
- Continuity and Change in Islamic Economic Thought (1987) (8)
- The Vulnerability of the Arab State : Reflections on the Ayubi Thesis (1999) (7)
- Modern Islam and the economy (2000) (7)
- Economic Structure and Performance (1986) (7)
- Behavioral Law and Economics: Controlling Availability Cascades (2000) (7)
- 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 (2009) (7)
- Economic Justice in Contemporary Islamic Thought (1992) (7)
- Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul (2020) (6)
- Anticipated Inflation and Aggregate Employment: The Case of Costly Price Adjustment (1986) (6)
- Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East : Political Legacies of the Waqf (2013) (6)
- Expanding Discrimination Research: Moving Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web (2004) (6)
- The Role Of Deception In Political Competition (1991) (5)
- Religious Obstacles to Democratization in the Middle East: Past and Present * (2013) (5)
- Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences (2013) (5)
- The Logic of Revolutions (2019) (4)
- The Islamic Commercial Crisis : Institutional Roots of the Delay in the Middle East ’ s Economic Modernization (2001) (4)
- The Economic Ascent of the Middle East's Religious Minorities: The Role of Islamic Legal Pluralism (2004) (4)
- RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, INFORMAL LEADERS, AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ORGANIZATIONAL DISSENT (2001) (4)
- Islamic statecraft and the Middle East's delayed modernization (2004) (4)
- Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf (2014) (3)
- Zakat: Islam’s missed opportunity to limit predatory taxation (2019) (3)
- Synergies between Middle Eastern Economic History and the Analytic Social Sciences (2012) (2)
- A Reply to Muhammad Khan (1990) (2)
- Seeds of racial explosion (1993) (2)
- Why the Islamic Middle East Did not Generate an Indigenous Corporate Law (2004) (2)
- Political Consequences of the Middle East’s Islamic Economic Legacy (2012) (2)
- Internal migration: the unorganized urban sector and income distribution in Turkey 1963-1973 (1978) (2)
- Ottoman Justice and Its Implications for Modern Economic Life (2010) (1)
- Structural Inefficiencies in Islamic Courts : Ottoman Justice and Its Implications for Modern Economic Life July 22 , 2010 (2010) (1)
- The Beginnings of Economic Modernization in the Middle East: Legal Impact of Unequal Trade Treaties (2006) (1)
- Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Political Legacies of the Islamic Waqf (2013) (1)
- The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Unequal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly (2021) (1)
- Pioneers in Development: Second Series (1988) (0)
- Judicial Biases in the Ottoman Empire: The Roles of Inter-Court Competition and Personal Exchange (2010) (0)
- Timur Kuran Interview (2009) (0)
- Aptullah Kuran (2002) (0)
- Explaining the Economic Trajectories of Civilizations: Musings on the Systemic Approach (2007) (0)
- Public Opinion: Microsociological Aspects (2001) (0)
- CHAPTER TWO. Islamic Economics and the Islamic Subeconomy (2004) (0)
- Statement by New Editors (2017) (0)
- ECONOMICS 395T.01: The Political Economy of Institutional Change & ECONOMICS 395T.02: Functions of Social Institutions POLITICAL SCIENCE 398.01 & 398.02: The Political Economy of Institutions Spring 2010 (2010) (0)
- Changes to Our Editorial Board (2017) (0)
- The Appraisal: Contemporary Islamic Economics and the Entrenchment of Modernity (2021) (0)
- A Note: On Institutions as Regulators of Economic Change (1992) (0)
- Great Changes in the World and in Economics Corruption, Development and Institutional Design (2009) (0)
- CHAPTER ONE. The Economic Impact of Islamism (2004) (0)
- Abstract: Islamic economics as a doctrine recognized in Islam and a science Islamization project in the 21st century has shown astonishing (2016) (0)
- EditorialStatement by New Editors (2017) (0)
- Özay Mehmet, Islamic Identity and Development: Studies of the Islamic Periphery (London: Routledge, 1990). Pp. 268. (1992) (0)
- Islamic economic co-operation:, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. xxxvi + 447 pp., index (1991) (0)
- Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and other Economic Institutions (1998) (0)
- Islamism and economics: Policy prescriptions for a free society (2006) (0)
- Part II. Organizational Stagnation (2012) (0)
- Changes to JCE's board of associate editors (2023) (0)
- Timur Kuran, ed., Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records, vols. 1–10 (Reviewed by Ali Yaycıoğlu)—ERRATUM (2016) (0)
- A COMMENT ON ALI YAYCIOĞLU'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) (2016) (0)
- Part IV. Conclusions (2012) (0)
- 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. (1985) (0)
- JAPE referees 2010 (2011) (0)
- Theoretical studies in islamic banking and finance: Mohsin S. Khan and Abbas Mirakhor, Eds., Houston, TX: Institute for Research and Islamic Studies, 1987. xvi + 245 pp., index. $24.95 (1989) (0)
- The Puzzle of the Middle East’s Economic Underdevelopment (2011) (0)
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Notion of Economic Justice in Contemporary Islamic Thought (2004) (0)
- CHAPTER SIX. Islam and Underdevelopment: An Old Puzzle Revisited (2004) (0)
- Explanatory Success Does Not Imply Predictive Power@@@Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World. (1992) (0)
- Part III. The Makings of Underdevelopment (2012) (0)
- II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OFWAQF IN ISLAM, COMPARED TO TRUST IN THE COMMON LAW SYSTEM A. Development of trust in common law system (2012) (0)
- Sour grapes: Studies in the subversion of rationality: Jon Elster, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and Editions de la Maison des Sciences de I'Homme, Paris, 1983) pp. viii + 177, $29.95 (1984) (0)
- CHAPTER THREE. Islamism and Economics: Policy Prescriptions for a Free Society (2004) (0)
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