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SUMMARY:FFF- Economic Liberty Lecture Series - Timur Kuran
DESCRIPTION:Dinner and Lecture     Place:  George Mason University - Enterprise 318     Time:  5:30 pm – Pizza 6:00 pm – Talk with Q&A 8:00 pm – Social hour at Brion’s Grille (ADMISSION: FREE)     Speaker:  Timur Kuran     Topic:  “Religious Obstacles to Democratization in the Middle East: Past and Present"     Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science\, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His research focuses on social change\, including the evolution of preferences and institutions. He is an authority on the economic history and thought of the Middle East. His current projects include a multi-volume study of the role that Islam played in the economic rise of the Middle East and\, subsequently\, in the institutional stagnation that accompanied the region’s slip into a state of underdevelopment. Among his publications are Private Truths\, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification (Harvard University Press); Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism (Princeton University Press); and The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (Princeton University Press).     Presented by:  George Mason University Economics Society & The Future of Freedom Foundation (fff@fff.org\, (703) 934-6101)     Directions:  George Mason University\, 4400 University Drive\, Fairfax\, VA. Visitors should park in the Shenandoah Parking Deck. Student Union II is directly across from the parking deck and the Rooms 3-5 are on the top floor. All Parking Inquiries: (703) 993-2710.   
LOCATION: 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA, 22030, United States
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