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Timur Kuran

Professor at Duke University. Studies economic & political development, Middle East, Islam.
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Working paper: “From Performance to Habit: How Preference Falsification Becomes Self-Reinforcing”

August 24, 20262025-2029, Economics of culture, English, Preference falsification, Regime transition, Social mechanisms, Working PapersTimur Kuran

(with Fasih Zulfiqar): “From Performance to Habit: How Preference Falsification Becomes Self-Reinforcing” (Social Science Research Network working paper, August 2026).

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← Article: “Uneven Modernization in the Muslim World” Working paper: “The State Waqfs of Ottoman Istanbul, 1453-1923” →

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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

  • Working paper: “The State Waqfs of Ottoman Istanbul, 1453-1923”
  • Working paper: “From Performance to Habit: How Preference Falsification Becomes Self-Reinforcing”
  • Article: “Uneven Modernization in the Muslim World”
  • Article: “Keeping while Giving: The Perpetuation of Inequalities through Private Islamic Waqfs”
  • Interview: “Declining Islam in the Middle East?” Atlas Society, with Jennifer Grossman, 22 January 2025.
  • Podcast: “Timur Kuran on Why We Lie About Our Beliefs,” Persuasion, with Yascha Mounk, 30 August 2024.
  • Interview: “Freedoms Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East,” Cato Institute, with Mustafa Akyol and John Voll, 12 March 2024.
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