Books by Timur Kuran
Found 2 books
The author is Timur Kuran and the subtitle is How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East . My previous and longer discussion of Timur is here . Here is a short excerpt from the book:
Here is Timur's home page . You can buy the new book — which I strongly recommend – here . Here is the book's home page . Here is a related podcast . Here is a video of Timur . Here is a picture of Turkey:
His first book Private Truth, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (one of the best economics books of the last twenty years) is about how societies can stick with screwed up beliefs and defend them publicly, yet without everyone being evil or stupid, even if they sometimes sound as such. It has major implications for the theory of revolution, and sudden flips of opinion, yet I read it as a defense of [fill in the blank] society. His work with Sunstein on availabilit...