1st Edition
Reconstructions in Middle East Economic History Essays in Honor of Roger Owen
1. The Odysseys of Economic History: Introduction and Overview
Don Babai
2. Bread (Rawls) + Freedom (Sen) = Social Justice? Religion and Economics in the Egyptian Spring
Mahmoud A. El-Gamal
3. Business as Usual: Islamist Governments, Growth, and Distribution after the Arab Spring
Eberhard Kienle
4. Begging, Stealing, and Striking: Labor Resistance and Survival in Interwar Egypt
Hanan Hammad
5.Politics of Property in the Global Market Economy All the Way to Daesh
Huri Islamoglu
6. Green, Grey, and Brown: Failed Revolutions of Arab Economies Three Revolutions and Discontinuous Economic Growth
Robert Springborg
7. The Middle Class in Development: Egypt and Saudi Arabia During the Oil Boom (1973-1983) and Since
Relli Shechter
8. The Iranian Economy and Contradictions of the Islamic Republic in Historical Perspective
Massoud Karshenas
9. Institutions and the Early Modern Ottoman Economy
Şevket Pamuk
10. Determinants of Movements in Egyptian and Ottoman Sovereign Debt Yields in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Eric Chaney
11. The Global Oil Economy and the Emergence of Peaceful Democratic Europe
Ellis Goldberg
12. The Economic Thought of al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī
Roy Parviz Mottahedeh
Biography
Don Babai is a Research Associate at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He teaches international organization and international political economy. His current research interests include business-state relations in Saudi Arabia and the industrial policies of Middle Eastern countries, and he has published widely on international economic institutions.
