Timur Kuran

Professor at Duke University. Studies economic & political development, Middle East, Islam.
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Review essay: “West is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall”

January 2, 20112010-2014, Economic development, Economic historyTimur Kuran

“West is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall”. Foreign Affairs, 90 (January-February 2011): 159-63. Printer friendly version.

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Timur Kuran

Professor of Economics & Political Science
Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies
Duke University

213 Social Sciences
Box 90097
Durham, NC 27708

(919) 660-1872
Email: t.kuran@duke.edu
Twitter: @timurkuran

Recent Posts

  • Book: Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), xviii+430 pp.
  • Podcast: “Why the Lies We Tell in Public Are So Destructive,” Three Takeaways, with Lynn Thoman, 15 November 2022.
  • Podcast: “The Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul,” GrowthChat, with Marco Lecchi and Sascha Becker, 15 December 2021.
  • Interview: İyi tasarlanmış bir koleksiyon, tarih kitaplarında bulamayacağınız bilgiler sunar.” (with Nadirkitap)
  • Working Paper: “The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Personal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly”
  • Working Paper: “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul, 1600-1839”
  • Podcast: “A Conspiracy of Silence,” Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedankar
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