Reconstructions in Middle East Economic History

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.

• 1. The Odysseys of Economic History: Introduction and OverviewDon Babai2. Bread (Rawls) + Freedom (Sen) = Social Justice? Religion and Economics in the Egyptian SpringMahmoud A. El-Gamal3. Business as Usual: Islamist Governments, Growth, and Distribution after the Arab SpringEberhard Kienle4. Begging, Stealing, and Striking: Labor Resistance and Survival in Interwar EgyptHanan Hammad5.Politics of Property in the Global Market Economy All the Way to DaeshHuri Islamoglu6. Green, Grey, and Brown: Failed Revolutions of Arab Economies Three Revolutions and Discontinuous Economic GrowthRobert Springborg7. The Middle Class in Development: Egypt and Saudi Arabia During the Oil Boom (1973-1983) and SinceRelli Shechter8. The Iranian Economy and Contradictions of the Islamic Republic in Historical PerspectiveMassoud Karshenas9. Institutions and the Early Modern Ottoman EconomyŞevket Pamuk10. Determinants of Movements in Egyptian and Ottoman Sovereign Debt Yields in the 19th and Early 20th CenturiesEric Chaney11. The Global Oil Economy and the Emergence of Peaceful Democratic EuropeEllis Goldberg12. The Economic Thought of al-Rāghib al-IṣfahānīRoy Parviz Mottahedeh