(with Mehmet Akan) Türkiye’de Postanın Mikrotarihi, 1920-2015 / Microhistory of the Turkish Posts, 1920-2015, vol. 1: 1920-50 (Istanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2019), xxi+791 pp.
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Category Archives: Turkey
Podcast: “The Portal Episode 4: Timur Kuran: The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception”
Working Paper: “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul, 1600-1839”
(with Aslı Cansunar) “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul, 1600-1839” (Economic Research Initiatives at Duke Working Paper, SSRN, August 9, 2019).
Op-ed: “The Economic Costs of Erdoğan”
(with Dani Rodik) “The Economic Costs of Erdoğan” Project Syndicate, August 24, 2018
- Arabic translation: التكلفة الاقتصادية لأردوغان
- Chinese translation: 埃尔多安的经济代价
- French translation: “Les coûts économiques d’Erdoǧan”
- German translation: “Die wirtschaftlichen Kosten Erdoğans”
- Russian Translation: “Цена Эрдогана для экономики”
- Spanish translation: “Los costos económicos de Erdoğan”
- Turkish translation: “Erdoğan’ın Ekonomik Maliyeti
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.
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
Comment: “Yaycıoğlu’s Review of Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul”
“A Comment on Ali Yaycıoğlu’s Review of Timur Kuran (ed.), Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records, vols. 1-10 (IJMES 47 (2015):625-27)”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 48 (2016): 429-32.
Article: “Between Markets and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey”
(with Murat Çokgezen) “Between Markets and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 43 (2015): 862-83.
Interview: “Daha Şiddetli Bir Diktatörlük Gelecek”
Can Uğur ile söyleşi: “Daha Şiddetli Bir Diktatörlük Gelecek,” Birgün, 22 April 2014, p. 1.
Op-ed: “Turkey’s Electoral Dictatorship”
“Turkey’s Electoral Dictatorship.” Project Syndicate, April 10, 2014.
Article: “Bénéfice Inattendu des Capitulations: Facilitation de L’Échange Impersonnel”
“Bénéfice Inattendu des Capitulations: Facilitation de L’Échange Impersonnel,” translated by Michel Bruneau. Anatoli (Dossier Thématique: Configurations Économiques dans L’Espace Post-Ottoman), 5 (2014): 53-80. Drawn from Long Divergence, chaps. 11-12.
Interview: “Crescent Moon Capitalism”
with Noah Blazer, “Crescent Moon Capitalism: Timur Kuran Weighs the Legacy of Islam’s Divergence from the West,” Today’s Zaman, June 28, 2012.
Edited book set: Mahkeme Kayıtları Işığında 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul’unda Sosyo-Ekonomik Yaşam / Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records
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Article: “Internal Migration: The Unorganized Urban Sector and Income Distribution in Turkey, 1963-73”
“Internal Migration: The Unorganized Urban Sector and Income Distribution in Turkey, 1963-73,” in Ergun Özbudun and Aydın Ulusan (eds.), The Political Economy of Income Distribution in Turkey (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1980): 349-378.