T Kuran - 1997 - books.google.com
Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of
misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in
everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the food ...
T Kuran… - Stanford Law Review, 1999 - JSTOR
An availability cascade is a self-reinforcing process of collective belief formation by which an
expressed perception triggers a chain reaction that gives the perception increasing
plausibility through its rising availability in public discourse. The driving mechanism ...
T Kuran - World politics, 1991 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract Like many major revolutions in history, the East European Revolution of 1989
caught its leaders, participants, victims, and observers by surprise. This paper offers an
explanation whose crucial feature is a distinction between private and public preferences. ...
T Kuran - Public Choice, 1989 - Springer
A feature shared by certain major revolutions is that they were not anticipated. Here is an
explanation, which hinges on the observation that people who come to dislike their
government are apt to hide their desire for change as long as the opposition seems weak. ...
T Kuran - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Although a millennium ago the Middle East was not an economic laggard, by the
18th century it exhibited clear signs of economic backwardness. The reason for this
transformation is that certain components of the region's legal infrastructure stagnated as ...
T Kuran - 2004 - books.google.com
The doctrine of" Islamic economics" entered debates over the social role of Islam in the mid-
twentieth century. Since then it has pursued the goal of restructuring economies according to
perceived Islamic teachings. Beyond its most visible practical achievement--the ...
T Kuran - J. Legal Stud., 1998 - HeinOnline
Abstract Ethnic norms are the ethnically symbolic behavioral codes that individuals must
follow to retain social acceptance. They are sustained partly by sanctions that individuals
impose on each other in trying to establish good credentials. This essay analyzes the" ...
T Kuran - The Economic Journal, 1987 - JSTOR
In a moment of frustration over his country's economic woes, Leonid Brezhnev once
complained of the tendency of Soviet enterprise managers to shy away from innovation'as
the devil shies away from incense'. Implicit in this lamentation are two distinct attributions. ...
T Kuran - The Journal of Economic History, 2003 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract During the second millennium, the Middle East's commerce with Western Europe
fell increasingly under European domination. Two factors played critical roles. First, the
Islamic inheritance system, by raising the costs of dissolving a partnership following a ...
T Kuran - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995 - JSTOR
T he mid-twentieth century saw the emergence of a literature characterized as Islamic
economics. The declared goal of this literature has been to identify and promote an
economic order that conforms to Islamic scripture and traditions. Now featuring thousands ...
T Kuran - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract A number of theories have been developed to explain why societies do not always
adapt to changing conditions. These are critiqued here, with an emphasis on their
substantive and methodological differences. Some theories ascribe lack of adaptation to ...
T Kuran - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics ( …, 1997 - JSTOR
The world's predominantly Muslim countries have long been underdeveloped. This paper
classifies, critiques, and extends the mechanisms that have been proposed as explanations
for the pattern. One mechanism involves the use of Islam to legitimize worldviews that ...
T Kuran - Law and Society Review, 2001 - JSTOR
The Islamic waqf appears to have emerged as a credible commitment device to give
property owners economic security in return for social services. Throughout the Middle East,
it long served as a major instrument for delivering public goods in a decentralized manner. ...
T Kuran - International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1986 - Cambridge Univ Press
Since the late 1940s, and especially since the mid-1960s, a wealth of pamphlets, articles,
and books have appeared that constitute the corpus of what is now known as" Islamic
economics." This literature, v/hose exponents call themselves" Islamic economists," ...
T Kuran - Economics and Philosophy, 1990 - Cambridge Univ Press
The theory of revealed preference, which lies at the core of the neoclassical economic
method, asserts that people's preference orderings are revealed by their actions. This
assertion has two possible meanings, of which one is a truism and the other false. When a ...
T Kuran - American Journal of Sociology, 1995 - JSTOR
Although social scientists have written extensively on revolutions, none of their theories has
shown much predictive success in practice. Recent revolutions surprised social scientists as
much as anyone else. This article proposes that revolutionary surprises will occur ...
T Kuran - The American Economic Review, 1991 - JSTOR
Many aspects of the East European Revolution are controversial, but on one point everyone
agrees: it caught the world by surprise. Even local dissidents were stunned by the sudden
turn of events. We will never know how many East Europeans did foresee the explosion of ...
T Kuran - The American Economic Review, 1996 - JSTOR
Islamic economics, which is dedicated to restructuring economic thought and practice on the
basis of fundamental Islamic teachings, has been criticized extensively for its incoherence,
incompleteness, impracticality, and irrelevance (see eg, Sohrab Behdad, 1989; Kuran, ...
[CITATION] The economic impact of Islamic fundamentalism
T Kuran - … and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies …, 1993 - Chicago: U. Chicago Press
T Kuran - Am. J. Comp. L., 2005 - HeinOnline
Classical Islamic law recognizes only natural persons; it does not grant standing to
corporations. This article explores why Islamic law did not develop a concept akin to the
corporation, or borrow one from another legal system. It also identifies processes that ...
T Kuran - The Journal of Legal Studies, 2004 - JSTOR
Abstract In the nineteenth century, the Middle East's Christian and Jewish minorities
registered conspicuous economic advances relative to the Muslim majority. These advances
were made possible by the choice of law available to non‐Muslim subjects. Until the late ...
[CITATION] Ethnic dissimilation and its international diffusion
T Kuran - The international spread of ethnic …, 1998 - Princeton University Press Princeton …
T Kuran - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005 - Elsevier
In the 19th century, financial reforms in the Middle East included the legalization of interest,
the establishment of secular courts, and banking regulations, all based on Western models.
Exploring why foreign institutions were transplanted, this article shows that Islamic law ...
T Kuran - Social Research, 1997 - questia.com
THE twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of an eco- nomic doctrine that calls itself
"Islamic economics." Of all economists of the Muslim faith, only a small minority, known as "Islamic
economists," identify with some variant of this new doc- trine. Yet the doctrine is socially ...
T Kuran - The American Economic Review, 1983 - JSTOR
When prices adjust in response to market disturbances, they usually do so in discrete jumps.
Even when market conditions are changing continuously, prices tend to remain fixed for
substantial lengths of time. The commodities fitting this general pattern include most retail ...
T Kuran - International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1989 - Cambridge Univ Press
In the massive contemporary literature that has come to be known as" Islamic economics," 1
the claim is repeatedly made that an Islamic economic system would achieve a greater
degree of economic justice than existing capitalist and socialist systems. An Islamic ...
T Kuran - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics ( …, 1991 - JSTOR
An outcome advocated by some group might owe its existence to an evolutionary process of
preference formation over which no one exercises control. Through a model that treats both
preferences and collective choices as endogenous, this paper offers a mechanism to ...
T Kuran - Social mechanisms: An analytical approach to social …, 1998 - books.google.com
Within segments of the social sciences that are concerned with model building, the
individual is commonly portrayed as a pleasure machine incapable of experiencing anguish,
regret, guilt, or shame. Exploiting his opportunities to the fullest, this imagined individual ...
T Kuran - Public Choice, 1987 - Springer
A model is presented of an open-voting public choice process that features pressure groups
vying for society's support. Individuals choose what policy to advocate on the basis of their
private preferences, which are those they would express in a secret ballot; endogenous ...
T Kuran - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986 - JSTOR
Even when inflation is perfectly predictable, a firm for whici price adjustment is costly will
keep its nominal price unchanged for extended periods. At least part of the time, therefore,
the firm's real price will diverge from the price that maximizes its instantaneous profits. In ...
T Kuran - Economics, Values, and Organization, 1998 - books.google.com
Suppose you are far away from home, traveling alone on a highway. You stop at a busy
roadside restaurant for dinner. The food is decent and the service acceptable. When the bill
of $13.64 arrives, an inner voice tells you that the waitress deserves the customary 15 ...
[CITATION] Islamic redistribution through Zakat: Historical record and modern realities
T Kuran - Poverty and charity in Middle Eastern …, 2003 - State University of New York Press, …
T Kuran - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1983 - Elsevier
Abstract At the heart of the contemporary Islamic doctrine of economics lies a set of
behavioral norms derived from the first Islamic society in seventh century Arabia. This paper
demonstrates that these norms cannot be expected to serve as the spearhead of a drive ...
T Kuran… - Review of Economic Studies, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A community's culture is defined by the preferences and equilibrium behaviours of its
members. Contacts among communities alter individual cultures through two interrelated
mechanisms: behavioural adaptations driven by pay-offs to coordination, and preference ...
T Kuran - Critical Review, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract An enduring challenge of democracy is to give citizens an effective say in collective
decision making by ensuring broad participation in political discourse. Deliberative opinion
polling aims to meet this challenge by providing new opportunities for ordinary citizens to ...
T Kuran - 2010 - books.google.com
In the year 1000, the economy of the Middle East was at least as advanced as that of
Europe. But by 1800, the region had fallen dramatically behind--in living standards,
technology, and economic institutions. In short, the Middle East had failed to modernize ...
T Kuran - Rationality and Society, 1993 - rss.sagepub.com
Abstract When people misrepresent their beliefs in response to social pressures, public
discourse gets impoverished. Because public discourse is a basic determinant of individual
perceptions and understandings, a by-product is the distortion of private knowledge. This ...
T Kuran - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics ( …, 1994 - JSTOR
Squarely in the secular realm of social thought at least since the late-nineteenth century,
modern economics has tended to develop independently from both religious thought and
the study of religion. Until quite recently, clerics, theologians, and economists all promoted ...
T Kuran - Culture and public action, 2004 - books.google.com
In ongoing debates on economic development, a steady source of controversy is the
accommodation of cultural particularities. Although the arguments are highly diverse, they
may be grouped in two broad categories: multiculturalism and globalism. Multiculturalists ...
[CITATION] Private Truths
T Kuran - Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference, 1995
[CITATION] The craft guilds of Tunis and their amins: a study in institutional atrophy
T Kuran - The New Institutional Economics and Development. …, 1989
T Kuran - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009 - Elsevier
A civilization constitutes a durable social system of complementary traits. Some of the
complementarities of any given civilization are between elements of “material” life and ones
commonly treated as integral to “culture.” Identifying the mechanisms responsible for a ...
[CITATION] Controlling availability cascades
T Kuran, CR Sunstein - Behavioral …, 2000 - Cambridge, Cambridge University …
T Kuran - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In the course of the second millennium, the Middle East's commerce with Western
Europe fell increasingly under European domination. Two factors played critical roles. First,
the Islamic inheritance system, by raising the costs of dissolving a partnership following a ...
T Kuran - Journal of Economic Literature, 1996 - elibrary.ru
... Название публикации, [BOOK REVIEW] PRIVATE TRUTHS, PUBLIC LIES, THE SOCIAL
CONSEQUENCES OF PREFERENCE FALSIFICATION. Авторы, Timur Kuran. Журнал, Journal
of Economic Literature. Издательство, American Economic Association. ...
[CITATION] Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation'(1999)
T Kuran… - Stanford Law Review
T Kuran - 1978 - princeton.edu
The author is a graduate student in Economics at Stanford University. The research
embodied in this paper originally formed part of his AB thesis submitted to Princeton
University in 1977. The invaluable help and guidance of Professors Sherman Robinson ...
T Kuran… - Political Research Quarterly, 2008 - prq.sagepub.com
Abstract A large telephone survey conducted after the attacks of September 11, 2001,
suggests that the willingness to tolerate discrimination varies significantly across domains,
with a very high tolerance of discrimination against poorly educated immigrants and a ...
T Kuran - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1995 - econpapers.repec.org
... EconPapers has moved to http://EconPapers.repec.org! Please update your bookmarks. Further
reflections on the behavioral norms of Islamic economics. Timur Kuran. Journal of Economic
Behavior & Organization, 1995, vol. 27, issue 1, pages 159-163. ...
T Kuran - 2001 - Citeseer
ABSTRACT. In the course of the second millennium, the Middle East's commerce with
Western Europe fell increasingly under European domination. Two factors played critical
roles. First, the Islamic inheritance system, by raising the costs of dissolving a partnership ...
T Kuran - Economic Inquiry, 1986 - Wiley Online Library
Even if inflation is perfectly anticipated, a firm that finds nominal price adjustments
sufficiently costly will reset its price at multi-period intervals. Consequently, its average
output will change in a direction that depends on properties of its profit function. On the ...
T Kuran… - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: A community's culture is defined by the preferences and equilibrium behaviors of
its members. Contacts among communities alter individual cultures through two
mechanisms: behavioral adaptations driven by payoffs to coordination and preference ...
T Kuran - Islam and the everyday world: public policy dilemmas, 2006 - books.google.com
A visible triumph of the ongoing global movement known as Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic
revivalism, or Islamism1 has been the spread of Islamic banks. Throughout the Islamic
world, the successes of Islamic banking have alarmed many supporters of secularization, ...
T Kuran - Economic Research, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The historical record belies the claim that Islam impeded entrepreneurship by
inculcating conformism and fatalism. However, the diametrically opposed view that Islamic
institutions are necessarily supportive of entrepreneurship flies in the face of the historical ...
[CITATION] 'Why Revolutions Are Better Understood Than Predicted: The Essential Role of Preference Falsification
T Kuran… - Can Revolutions Be Predicted; Can Their Causes Be …, 1995
[CITATION] Continuity and Change in Islamic Economic Thought
T Kuran - Pre-Classical Economic Thought, Boston, Kluwer …, 1987
[CITATION] Islamic Influences on the Ottoman Guilds
T Kuran - Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation, 2000
DB Klein, T Cowen… - Economic Journal Watch, 2005 - econjournalwatch.org
THOMAS SCHELLING HAS BEEN ONE OF THE, AND IN MANY CASES the, pioneer in
developing the following ideas: coordination concepts, focal points, convention,
commitments (including promises and threats) as strategic tactics, the idea that strategic ...
T Kuran - Constitutional Political Economy, 1993 - Springer
Abstract Public opinion breeds tyranny by forcing individuals to refrain from voicing their
genuine thoughts and feelings. The means used to mitigate such tyranny include the
separation of governmental powers, the ethic of tolerance, and the secret ballot. Yet ...
T Kuran… - Social science quarterly, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. This article aims to expand research about perceptions of discrimination both
substantively and methodologically beyond the domains of race and ethnicity, relying partly
on web-based surveys. Methods. We conducted parallel surveys over the telephone and ...
[CITATION] Ethnic Dissimilation and its Global Transmission
T Kuran - The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear …, 1995
T Kuran - 1997 - books.google.com
Mitten in der Arbeit an diesem Buch sandte ich einen Abschnitt über den Zusammenbruch
des osteuropäischen Kommunismus an einen tschechischen Wissenschaftler, dem ich auf
einer Konferenz begegnet war. Meine Beweisführung, schrieb er zurück, erscheine ihm so ...
T Kuran - Working Papers, 1989 - econpapers.repec.org
By T. Kuran; THE ROLE OF DECEPTION IN POLITICAL COMPETITION.
[CITATION] Ethnic Norms and Their Transformation Through Reputational Cascades, 27J
T Kuran - Legal Stud, 1998
T Kuran - 2004 - books.google.com
Timur Kuran has provided an interesting analysis of the importance of political, legal,
institutional and economic competition in the Islamic world. Though his analysis is mainly
concerned with the Ottoman empire, he also touched on other periods and regions of the ...
[CITATION] Fundamentalist Economics and the Economic Roots of Fundamentalism: Policy Prescriptions for a Liberal Society
T Kuran - Fundamentalisms and Public Policy, 1995
[CITATION] Symposium on prediction in the social sciences
M Hechter, T Kuran, C Tilly, R Collins… - American Journal of Sociology, 1995
T Kuran - INDEPENDENT REVIEW-OAKLAND-, 1998 - independent.org
As the twentieth century draws to a close, many countries are making headline-grabbing
attempts at economic and political liberalization. The former goal typically entails shrinking
the reach of government, the latter the extension of individual rights. As a practical matter, ...
[CITATION] Private Truths, Public Lies
Timur. Kuran - Harvard University Press
T Kuran - University of Southern California, 2004 - law.bepress.com
Abstract Classical Islamic law recognizes only natural persons; it does not grant standing to
imagined, juristic persons. This article identifies self-reinforcing processes that kept Islamic
law from developing a concept of legal personhood indigenously. Community building ...
[CITATION] Preference falsification, policy rigidity and social conservatism
T Kuran - Unpublished paper, University of Southern California, 1986
[CITATION] World Politics
T Kuran - 1991
T Kuran - Department of Economics, Duke University, 2007 - afd.fr
The belief that Islam inhibits economic development has enjoyed currency at least since the
19 century, when rapid economic growth in Western Europe and its cultural offshoots in
North th America made Muslims appear economically underdeveloped. Although political ...
[CITATION] Economic Justice in Contemporary Islamic Thought
T Kuran - Islamic Economic Alternatives, 1992 - London: Macmillan Academic and …
T Kuran, J Benthall… - Anthropology today, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives. Timur Kuran 1 ,; Jonathan Benthall 2 ,; Bill Maurer
3. Article first published online: 9 OCT 2008. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.00064. RAI 2001. Issue.
Anthropology Today. Volume 17, Issue 3, pages 28–29, June 2001. Additional Information ...
[CITATION] West Is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall
T Kuran - Foreign Affairs, 2011
T Kuran - Society, 1993 - Springer
E ver since the civil rights victories of the 1960s, a rrecurdng theme in American politics has
been one of an unfolding" white backlash" against policies designed to benefit blacks. When
David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, made a strong showing in the ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming." Moral Overload and Its Alleviation."
T Kuran - Economics, Values, and Organization
[CITATION] 999.“Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation.”
T Kuran… - Stanford Law Review
T Kuran - Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law, 2008 - yale.edu
Abstract The rule of law entails government accountability, equal access to justice and the
political process, efficient judicial and political systems, clear laws, generally stable laws,
and the protection of fundamental human rights. This paper explores whether Islamic law ...
[CITATION] From Melting Pot to Salad Bowl: Ethnic Activity and Social Induced Ethnification
T Kuran - Social Norms, Social Meaning, and the Economic …, 1997
[CITATION] Islamization and Economics: Policy Implication for a Free Society
T Kuran - International Review of Comparative Public Policy
[CITATION] Islamic Discipline of Economics Emerged in Late Colonial India
T Kuran - Islamic Economics Bulletin, 2002
[CITATION] Public Truth, Private Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
T Kuran - 1995 - Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge
[CITATION] Cultural Obstacles to Economic Development: Not Necessarily Real, Often Transitory
T Kuran - Culture and Public Action, 2004
[CITATION] has raised a series of question about why in the Islamic world traditional commercial institutions have been so slow to evolve into institutions capable of …
T Kuran - He also explores the failure of traditional “pious …, 1997
T Kuran - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009 - econpapers.repec.org
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Preface: The economic impact of culture, religion and the law. Timur Kuran. Journal of
Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, vol. 71, issue 3, pages 589-592. ...
[CITATION] The Religious Undertow of Muslim Economic Grievances
T Kuran - Understanding September, 2002
[CITATION] Private Truths, Public Lies (Cambridge
T Kuran - MA: Harvard University, 1995
[CITATION] kThe Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions, lin Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in Economic His …
T Kuran - 2009 - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University …
[CITATION] Institutional Causes of Underdevelopment in the Middle East: A Historical Perspective
T Kuran - Institutional Change and Economic Behavior, New …, 2008
T Kuran - New York Times, 2011 - relooney.info
THE protesters who have toppled or endangered Arab dictators are demanding more
freedoms, fair elections and a crackdown on corruption. But they have not promoted a
distinct ideology, let alone a coherent one. This is because private organizations have ...
[CITATION] Islam and Economics, Chapters 3 and 4:" Islam and Underdevelopment,” University of Southern California
T Kuran - 1999 - unpublished manuscript
T Kuran - CESifo Working Paper Series, 1997 - ideas.repec.org
Ethnic norms are the behavioral codes that individuals must follow to retain the acceptance
of their ethnic groups. They are sustained partly by sanctions that individuals impose on
each other in trying to establish personally advantageous ethnic credentials. This essay ...
T Kuran… - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This article aims to expand research about perceptions of discrimination both
substantively and methodologically: beyond the domains of race and ethnicity, and relying
partly on Web-based surveys. Methods. Parallel surveys were conducted over the ...
[CITATION] Economic Justice in Contemporary Economic Thought
T Kuran - … Economic Alternatives: Critical Perspectives and New …, 1992
[CITATION] The Wholesale Produce Market of Tunis and Its Porters: A Tale of Market Degeneration
M Azabou, T Kuran… - University of Southern California, MRG Working …, 1986
T Kuran - IEA CONFERENCE VOLUME SERIES, 2008 - hp.gredeg.cnrs.fr
To anyone who knows the Middle East, broadly defined to include North Africa and the
Balkans, it is a puzzle that the region became and remains economically underdeveloped.
Visit any major city in the region–Cairo, Aleppo, Istanbul–and you will encounter big ...
T Kuran - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: In the course of the second millennium, the Middle East's commerce with Western
Europe fell increasingly under European domination. Two factors played critical roles. First,
the Islamic inheritance system, by raising the costs of dissolving a partnership following a ...
E Chaney, T Kuran, R Mccleary, C Petry… - 2010 - mauricio.econ.ubc.ca
Abstract This paper uses over 700 years of Nile flood data to investigate the effect of
economic shocks on political outcomes in pre'Modern Islamic Egypt. Results show that while
deviant Nile floods increased political instability, these shocks decreased the likelihood of ...
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