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The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East

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Offering a comparison between economic development in the Middle East & the West, Timur Kuran argues that low levels of trust, rampant corruption & weak civil societies are legacies of eight centuries from c.1000 when Islamic legal institutions effectively blocked the emergence of modern economic systems.

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Product Details
Princeton University Press
1400836018 / 9781400836017
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
330.956
01/01/2011
English
405 pages
Copy: 100%; print: 100%
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