Timur Kuran

Timur Kuran, a professor of Economics and Political Science and the Gorter Family Chair in Islamic Studies at Duke University, is an authority on the economics of the Middle East. He recently created the USC Institute for Economic Research on Civilizations [http://www.usc.edu/ierc] . Before ariving at Duke in the fall of 2007, Kuran served as Professor of Economics and Law & King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Having received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 1982, Kuran is an editor of the book series, "Economics, Cognition, and Society," published by the University of Michigan Press, 1989- present. Further, he is the author of Islam and Mammon 2004, a study of what he calls the "economic predicaments of Islamism."Fact|date=February 2007 and an article on the same theme "Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation." in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004.

External links

* [http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~kuran | Prof. Kuran's Profile at USC]
* [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/PoliticalScience/t.kuran | Prof. Kuran's Profile at Duke]