Timur Kuran

Professor at Duke University. Studies economic & political development, Middle East, Islam.
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Interview: “Why Weinstein Held on For So Long and Fell So Fast”

October 20, 20172015-2019, Ethnic & racial conflict, Preference falsification, Regime transition, Social mechanisms, TurkeyHollywood, preference flasification, Revolution, sexual harassmentTimur Kuran

Interview by Virginia Postrel on “Why Weinstein Held On for So Long and Fell So Fast.” BloombergView, 17 October 2017.

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Contact

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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