Women in Economics - Is That a Good Idea?

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You grew up in a decidedly secular family, and you believed in the secular project of turkey. You didn't realize that they were people who actually had deep disagreements with your way of looking at the world. But those disagreements were actually just under the surface. When i was growing up in turkey, in the 19 sixties an the 19 seventies, a form of assertive secularism was generating enormous resentments. Yet opposing this measure would be perceived as being against turkey's modernization process, being anti western.

We all self-censor at times. We keep quiet at dinner with our in-laws, or nod passively in a work meeting. But what happens when we take this deception a step further, and pretend we believe the opposite of what we really feel? In this favorite episode from 2020, economist and political scientist Timur Kuran explains how our personal, professional and political lives are shaped by the fear of what other people think.

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