Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation

By T. Kuran. 2004

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Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. By Branko Milanovic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. ix + 299 pp. Figures, tables, references, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-73713-6 (2017, background): “In addition, I think the consideration of religion as part of the endogenous variable will play a role in achieving equality and development, especially for Muslim countries (world) which most of them are underdeveloped because of the institutions that generated evolutionary bottlenecks (Kuran, 2004”
Using the Law to Change the Custom (2012, unknown): “Yet, this observation qualifies Timur Kuran’s statement that in a matter such as inheritance that it addresses explicitly, the Qur’an carries an explicitly strong authority (Kuran 2003, 2004).”
The Origins of Terrorism - Cross-Country Estimates on Socio-Economic Determinants of Terrorism (2011, background): “The poor institutional environment of these countries (e.g., Kuran 2004) may have deprived individuals of economic opportunities, resulting in rather low opportunity costs of terror.”
Religion, Politics, and Development: Lessons from the Lands of Islam (2008, methodology): “Therefore institutions and processes “must be structured according to and operate within the framework of the Shari’a” (Rahmena and Nomani, 1990, p. 160; see also Haenni, 2005). in many diverse ways (Kuran, 2004d).”
Institutions and economic development: theory, policy and history (2010, background): “…centre of world science and mathematics around the 10th century), and make Islam look even more pro-developmental than Confucianism (see Chang, 2007a: chapter 9; however, for a discussion of the anti-developmental aspects of the Muslim legal system, such as the inheritance law, see Kuran, 2004).”
Religion and Economy (2006, background): “Kuran (2004) emphasizes this possibility, particularly because of legal structures that restrict contracts, credit, insurance and corporate ownership.”
Ibn Khaldun's theory of development: Does it help explain the low performance of the present-day Muslim world? (2008, background): “(3) The Islamic institution of waqf (philanthropic trust) (Kuran, 2004, pp. 71–72).”