Category Archives: Publications

Article: “Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989”

Now Out of Never: The Element of Surprise in the East European Revolution of 1989,” World Politics, 44 (October 1991): 7-48. Abstract

  • Reprint in Nancy Bermeo (ed.), Liberalization and Democratization(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992): 7- 48.
  • Abridged reprint in Essential Readings in Comparative Politics, 4th ed., edited by Patrick O’Neill and Ronald Rogowski (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012), in press.

Article: “The East European Revolution of 1989: Is It Surprising that We Were Surprised?”

“The East European Revolution of 1989: Is It Surprising that We Were Surprised?” American Economic Review, 81 (May 1991): 121-125. Abstract

  • Reprint in David Kennett and Mark Lieberman (eds.), The Road to Capitalism: Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992): 332-338.
  • Reprint in The Economics of Defence, ed. Keith Hartley and Todd Sandler (Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edgar Elgar, 2000): 552-56.

Article: “The Wholesale Produce Market of Tunis and Its Porters: A Tale of Market Degeneration”

(with Mongi Azabou and Mustapha Nabli) “The Wholesale Produce Market of Tunis and Its Porters: A Tale of Market Degeneration,” in Mustapha Nabli and Jeffrey Nugent (eds.), The New Institutional Economics and Development: Theory and Applications to Tunisia (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1989): 352-374. Abstract

Article: “On the Notion of Economic Justice in Contemporary Islamic Thought”

On the notion of economic justice in contemporary Islamic thought,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 21 (May 1989): 171-191. Abstract

  • Turkish translation (by Yasemin Tezgiden): “Çağdaş İslâm Düşününde Ekonomik Adalet Kavramı Üzerine,” in Timur Kuran, İslâm’ın Ekonomik Yüzleri (İstanbul: İletişim, 2002): 181-210.
  • Slight revision: Islamic Economic Alternatives: Critical Perspectives and New Directions, ed. Jomo K. S. (ed.),  (London: Macmillan Academic Press, 1992): 49-76.
  • Slight revision: The Economic Dimensions of Middle Eastern History, ed. H. Esfandiari and A. Udovitch (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1990): 93- 121.