Political economy Economic history Political history Middle East Islamic studies
Alma mater
Princeton University (A.B.) Stanford University (M.A., Ph.D.)
Doctoral advisor
Kenneth Arrow
Contributions
Preference falsification Economic and political effects of Islamic law
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.[1]
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TimurKuran is a Turkish-American economist and political scientist, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic...
preference falsification. The term preference falsification was coined by TimurKuran in a 1987 article, "Chameleon voters and public choice." On controversial...
was coined by TimurKuran in his book Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification. According to Kuran’s analysis of...
unrealistic to threaten prevailing economic structures" (TimurKuran). On economic reforms, TimurKuran said it is a "vehicle for asserting the primacy of Islam"...
thinking. The idea of the availability cascade was first developed by TimurKuran and Cass Sunstein as a variation of information cascades mediated by...
(634–644 CE). Other sources (Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, TimurKuran), do not agree, and state that the giving and taking of interest continued...
authorities in 1971. Aptullah Kuran is also the father of Duke University professor TimurKuran, Suzan Kuran, and Melisa Kuran Fowler. "InMemoriam". Archived...
(1987). Risāle-i Miʻmāriyye. Brill Archive. p. 49. ISBN 90-04-07846-0. TimurKuran (2011). "Commercial Life under Islamic Rule". The Long Divergence : How...
Gianci, "Zakat", Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy, pp. 479–481 Kuran, Timur (1996). "The Economic Impact of Islamic Fundamentalism". In Marty; Martin...
the editors-in-chief are Ruben Enikolopov (Pompeu Fabra University), TimurKuran (Duke University), and Hongbin Li (Stanford University). Official website...
proposed as an argument for the divergence for the Muslim world. Economist TimurKuran argues that Islamic institutions which had at earlier stages promoted...
camouflage interest so as to bypass the legal sanctions". Some (scholar TimurKuran) attribute the basis of religious condemnation of interest on loans to...
economic history of the Middle East. Brill Archive. ISBN 978-90-04-06061-6. TimurKuran (2011). The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East...
(Muhammad Akram Khan, Muhammad O. Farooq, Feisal Khan, Mahmoud El-Gama, TimurKuran) of Islamic banking have examined the differences between Islamic and...
sinful such as unlawful confiscation of land. However, critics like TimurKuran have described it as primarily a "vehicle for asserting the primacy of...
unacceptable to express a preference contrary to the group's. American academic TimurKuran described this phenomenon in his 1995 book Private Truth, Public Lies...
University of Western Ontario. Shatzmiller has critiqued the views of TimurKuran, arguing that his scholarship paints a negative picture of Islam but...
Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology TimurKuran, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor...
Euben, Khaled Fahmy, Frank Griffel, Bernard Haykel, Robert W. Hefner, TimurKuran, Jane McAuliffe, and Ebrahim Moosa. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic...
by democratic nations, creating a riskier vulnerability to collapse. TimurKuran writes in 1991 that generally leaders were despised and failed to meet...
fellow of the Econometric Society, recipient of the Blaise Pascal Chair TimurKuran, Turkish economist Kara Lawson, Duke women's basketball head coach (2020–present)...
ISBN 978-0385721868. Martin E. Marty; R. Scott Appleby; John H. Garvey; TimurKuran (July 1996). Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies...
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