(with Fasih Zulfiqar): “From Performance to Habit: How Preference Falsification Becomes Self-Reinforcing” (Social Science Research Network working paper, August 2026).
Category Archives: Preference falsification
Podcast: “Timur Kuran on Why We Lie About Our Beliefs,” Persuasion, with Yascha Mounk, 30 August 2024.
Podcast: “Timur Kuran on Why We Lie About Our Beliefs,” Persuasion, with Yascha Mounk, 30 August 2024.
Podcast: “Timur Kuran Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio,” Trend Following Radio, with Michael Covel, 27 February 2023.
Podcast: “Timur Kuran Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio,” Trend Following Radio, with Michael Covel, 27 February 2023.
Podcast: “Why the Lies We Tell in Public Are So Destructive,” Three Takeaways, with Lynn Thoman, 15 November 2022.
Podcast: “Why the Lies We Tell in Public Are So Destructive,” Three Takeaways, with Lynn Thoman, 15 November 2022.
Podcast: “The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception,” The Portal with Eric Weinstein
Podcast: “Revolutions, Authoritarianism, and Democracy”, The Good Fight with Yacha Mounk
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Date of conversation: July 17 2019
Interview: “‘Another Road to Serfdom’: Q&A with Timur Kuran”
A conversation with Timur Kuran Duke Economics, Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Article: “The Logic of Revolutions: Rational Choice Perspectives.”
(with Diego Romero) “The Logic of Revolutions: Rational Choice Perspectives.” Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, vol. 2, ed. Roger D. Congleton, Bernard Grofman, and Stefan Voigt (New York: Oxford University Press 2019), pp. 345-62.
Podcast: “Private Truths, Public Lies”
Podcast with Julia Galef: “Private Truths, Public Lies“. 10 December 2017, Rationally Speaking. Full transcript.
Interview: “Why Weinstein Held on For So Long and Fell So Fast”
Interview by Virginia Postrel on “Why Weinstein Held On for So Long and Fell So Fast.” BloombergView, 17 October 2017.
Article: “Another Road to Serfdom: Cascading Intolerance”
“Another Road to Serfdom: Cascading Intolerance,” in Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America, ed. Cass R. Sunstein (New York: Dey Street Books, 2018), pp. 233-76. Typescript.
Op-ed: “Turkey’s Changing Freedom Deficit”
“Turkey’s Changing Freedom Deficit.” Project Syndicate, September 15, 2016.
- Arabic translation: تركيا وعجز الحرية
- Chinese translation: 土耳其不断变化的自由赤字
- French translation: Le déficit de la Turquie en matière de liberté
- German translation: “Die Einschränkung der Freiheit in der Türkei“.
- Russian translation: Турецкие перемены и дефицит свободы
- Spanish translation: Vaivenes de la falta de libertad en Turquía
Op-ed: “You Can’t Keep a Lid on Discontent Forever”
“You Can’t Keep a Lid on Discontent Forever.” Cato Unbound, March 16, 2016.
Op-ed: “The Authenticity Deficit in Modern Politics”
“The Authenticity Deficit in Modern Politics.” Cato Unbound, March 7, 2016.
Interview: “An Atmosphere of Repression Leads to Preference Falsification among Opinion Leaders”
with Denis Volkov, “An Atmosphere of Repression Leads to Preference Falsification among Opinion Leaders,” Institute of Modern Russia, 14 October 2015.
