Areas of Interest:

• Political Economy of Institutions
• Economic Development
• Law

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1982
• M.A., Economics, Stanford University, 1979
• B.A., Economics, Princeton University, 1977

Experience:

• Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies, Duke University: 2007-present.
• Professor of Economics and Law, and King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture, University of Southern California: 2001-2007.
• Visiting Professor of Economics, Stanford University: 2004-05.
• Professor of Economics and King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture, University of Southern California: 1993-2001.

Latest Publications:

• (with Jared Rubin) “The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest rates under Partial Rule of Law.” Economic Journal, 127 (2017): in press.
• “Legal Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf.” American Journal of Comparative Law, 64 (June 2016): in press.
• “Modern Islam and the Economy,” in New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 6, gen. ed. Michael Cook, vol. ed. Robert Hefner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), in press
• “The Political Consequences of Islam’s Economic Legacy.” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 39 (2013): 345-405.
• (with Murat Çokgezen) “Between Markets and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 43 (2015): 862-83.