Category Archives: 1990-1999

Article: “Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation”

(with Cass R. Sunstein), “Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation ,” Stanford Law Review, 51 (April 1999): 683-768. Abstract

  • Reprint in The International Library of Essays in Environmental Risk, vol. 1, ed. John S. Applegate (Hampshire, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 411-96.
  • Abridged version in Cass R. Sunstein, Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 78-98.

Article: “The Genesis of Islamic Economics: A Chapter in the Politics of Muslim Identity”

The Genesis of Islamic Economics: A Chapter in the Politics of Muslim Identity ,”Social Research, 64 (Summer 1997): 301-338.

  • Reprint: Islam and Globalization, vol. 4, ed. Shahram Akbarzadeh (New York: Routledge, 2006): 116-42.
  • Turkish translation (by Yasemin Tezgiden): “İslâm Ekonomisinin Doğuşu: Yaralı Müslüman Kimliğini Tedavi Girişimi,” in Timur Kuran,  İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (İstanbul: İletişim, 2002): 147-79.

Article: “Islam and Underdevelopment: An Old Puzzle Revisited”

Islam and underdevelopment: An old puzzle revisited,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 153 (March 1997): 41-71. Abstract

  • Farsi translation (by Yadullah Dadgar): Naqd va Nazar, 3 (Winter 1997): 310-53.
  • French translation: “L’Islam et le sous-développement: Un vieux puzzle revisité,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines , 8 (March 1998): 27-60.
  • Turkish translation (by Cihan Dansuk and Timur Kuran): “İslâm ve Geri Kalmışlık: Eski Bir Muammaya Çözüm Arayışları,” Birikim, 137 (September 2000): 68-89. Revised form reprinted in Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (Istanbul : İletişim, 2002): 211-253.

Article: “Islamism and Economics: Policy Implications for a Free Society”

“Islamism and Economics: Policy Implications for a Free Society,” in Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani (eds.), Islam and Public Policy [International Review of Comparative Public Policy, vol. 9] (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1997): 72-102. Abstract

  • Italian translation (by Anna Caffarena): “La dottrina economica dell’Islam: Una visione alternativa,” Biblioteca della Libertà , 139 (March-April 1997): 35-67.
  • Turkish translation (by Yasemin Tezgiden): “İslâmcılık ve Ekonomi: Hür Bir Toplum İçin Politika Önerileri,” in Timur Kuran,  İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (İstanbul: İletişim, 2002): 101-146.
  • Updated version: in Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani (eds.), Islam and the Everyday World:: Public Policy Dilemmas (New York: Routledge, 2008): 38-65.