Category Archives: Turkey

“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”

June 28, 20122010-2014, Economic History, In the Media, Islam & Economic Development, Turkey, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

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

January 1, 20102010-2014, Economic History, Islam & Economic Development, Islam & Political Development, Turkey, Turkish - TürkçeTimur Kuran

cover-ib-book-vol-1-340-510-s (Ed.) Mahkeme Kayıtları Işığında 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul’unda Sosyo-Ekonomik Yaşam / Social and Economic Life in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Glimpses from Court Records, 10 vols. (Istanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2010-13).

Topics of volumes:

1. Guilds and Guildsmen + Communal Affairs of Christians and Jews + Foreigners (932 pp.),
2. Commercial Partnerships (659 pp.),
3–4. State-Individual Relations, including Taxation (544+708 pp.),
5–6–7–8. Waqfs (584+650+677+651 pp.),
9–10. Credit Markets and Uses of Interest (529+497 pp.).

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Article: “Internal Migration: The Unorganized Urban Sector and Income Distribution in Turkey, 1963-73”

June 1, 19801980-1989, Economic Development, TurkeyTimur Kuran

“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.