Timur Kuran
Auteur de Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
A propos de l'auteur
Timur Kuran is professor of economics and political science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Princeton).
Œuvres de Timur Kuran
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (1995) 119 exemplaires
The islamic commercial crisis : institutional roots of economic underdevelopment in the middle east 1 exemplaire
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I'm sure this book has aroused debate among experts in the field. I'm obviously not competent to judge the details of the argument, but I liked the way it was set up. I was also very impressed by the author's ability to discuss fairly complex Islamic institutions with clarity and broad scope. I didn't know anything about these institutions before reading this book, but I could still follow and understand the argument. I learned a lot from this book, not only about institutional differences between Islamic and European law but also about economic history in general and the reasons why economic cooperation sometimes works and sometimes fails to work. The book requires some focused work from the general reader, but I still highly recommend it to anyone interested in world history, economic history or comparative history.… (plus d'informations)