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Agora sim, Timur Kuran é um dos meus economistas favoritos. Se você encontrar a página dele na Internet, vai se divertir. Este texto é pequeno e eu não o conhecia. Mas acho que vale a leitura.

Timur Kuran | The Cultural Undertow of Muslim Economic Rage

Many of the arguments heard since September 11 have invoked the economic underdevelopment of the Islamic world to explain why so many Muslims appear angry at the West and particularly at the United States. Economic globalization has benefited the West and harmed vast segments of the Islamic world, it is said. Some add that Islam has exacerbated the conflict by transforming economic grievances into mistrust of Westernization, even into antagonism to modernity. This hostility is consistent, we are told, with the emergence of an Islamic banking system and with al Qaeda's use of hawala, an old Middle Eastern credit delegation instrument, to finance its deadly operations.