Radio interview with Jerry Bowyer, The American Entrepreneur, November 10, 2011: “Why Can’t the Middle East Catch Up to the World’s Leading Economies.”
Category Archives: 2010-2014
Op-ed: “Phase III of the Arab World’s Modernization: Building Accountability and Boosting Creativity”
Op-ed: “Phase III of the Arab World’s Modernization: Building Accountability and Boosting Creativity,” pp. 10-11 in World Economic Forum, 21 October 2011, The Compendium on Economic Governance in the Arab World 2011.
Roundtable paper: “Synergies between Middle Eastern Economic History and the Analytic Social Sciences”
“Synergies between Middle Eastern Economic History and the Analytic Social Sciences,” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 44 (2012): 542-45.
Op-ed: “The Weak Foundations of Arab Democracy”
“The Weak Foundations of Arab Democracy,” New York Times, May 28, 2011.
- French translation: “Démocratie Arabe : Des Fondations Fragiles.” Libre Afrique.
Book excerpt: “Long Divergence”
Excerpt of Long Divergence: Milken Institute Review, 13 (2011): 59-76.
Interview: “Historical Roots of Middle Eastern Uprisings”
Radio interview with Kai Ryssdal on Marketplace (March 4, 2011): “Historical Roots of Middle Eastern Uprisings.“
Op-ed: “The Politics of Revolutionary Surprise”
“The Politics of Revolutionary Surprise,” Project Syndicate, February 2, 2011.
- Arabic translation: سياسة المفاجأة الثورية
- Chinese translation: 突发革命背后的政治
- French translation: La politique de surprise révolutionnaire
- German translation: Politik der revolutionären Überraschungen
- Russian translation: Политика революционного сюрприза
- Spanish translation: La política de la sorpresa revolucionaria
Popular essay: “Legal Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East”
“Legal Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East,” European Financial Review (February-March 2011): 10-11 (essay summarizing the Long Divergence).
Review essay: “West is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall”
“West is Best? Why Civilizations Rise and Fall”. Foreign Affairs, 90 (January-February 2011): 159-63. Printer friendly version.
Book: The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East
The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).
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- Turkish edition: Yollar Ayrılırken: Ortadoğu’nun Geri Kalma Sürecinde İslam Hukukunun Rolü (Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2012). See table of contents + introduction + chapter 1. See the book’s page at YKY.
- Spanish edition: La Larga Divergencia: La Influencia de la ley Islamica en el Atraso de Oriento Medio (Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2017). See book’s page at EUG and summary.
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- Persian edition: شکاف عمیق در خاورمیانه (by Seyedmehdi Mirhoseini): (London: Mehri Publishers, 2019)
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Lecture transcript: “Orta Doğu’da Ekonomik Azgelişmişliğin Kurumsal Kökenleri”
“Orta Doğu’da Ekonomik Azgelişmişliğin Kurumsal Kökenleri” (Kayseri Ticaret Odası Dergisi (Ekim 2010): 50-58). (Yollar Ayrılırken (The Long Divergence) kitabındaki ana temaları kapsayan bir konuşmanın metni)
Article: “The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective”
“The Rule of Law in Islamic Thought and Practice: A Historical Perspective,” in Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law, ed. James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, and Lee Cabatingan (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 71-89.
Podcast: “Why the Middle East Fell Behind Europe”
Podcast of interview with Anthony Gill of University of Washington, on why the Middle East fell behind Western Europe during the millennium preceding the Industrial revolution. Research on Religion Podcast: August 23, 2010.
Podcast: “Orta Doğu’nun Ekonomik Azgelişmişliği”
with Ali Bilge on Açık Radyo (94.9 FM Istanbul) regarding the causes of economic underdevelopment in the Middle East, in Turkish. (Ali Bilge ile Açık Radyo’da “Orta Doğu’nun ekonomik azgelişmişliği” konulu söyleşi (2 bölüm: 29-30 Haziran 2010).)
Article: “The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions”
“The Scale of Entrepreneurship in Middle Eastern History: Inhibitive Roles of Islamic Institutions,” in The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times, ed. William J. Baumol, David S. Landes, and Joel Mokyr (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), pp. 62-87.
