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Economic Ideas Across Borders A History of German Influence on Turkish Economics
Exploring the cross-cultural exchange of ideas between German and Turkish scholars, policymakers, and institutions, this book sheds light on how German theories were interpreted and applied in Turkey during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Situating the flow of ideas within broader patterns of economic globalization, the contributors to this edited volume explore historical, economic, and ideological developments in Turkey and Germany. Within economic thought, there is a particular focus on the influence of the German Historical School in Turkish economic thought; the contributions of German refugee scholars in the 1930s, through their publications, courses they offered, and their relations with the other members of academia; and Marxian Asiatic Mode of Production debates of the 1960s. In terms of economic policy, the book also discusses agrarian populism in the 1930s, German soft power in interwar Turkey, the first Gastarbeiter Agreement and its effects, German investments in Turkey after the World War II, and the role of sports in shaping relations between Germany and Turkey.
The book will be of great interest to readers in the history of economic thought, intellectual history, economic history, and the histories of Germany and Turkey more broadly.
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The German Impact on Turkish Economic and Institutional Development
Jakob Kapeller and M. Erdem Özgür
Part I: Ottoman Empire and Early Twentieth Century
1 The Effect of Cameralism on Ottoman Economic Thought Revisited
Mesut Sert
2 German Influence in Turn-of-the-century Ottoman Economic Thought: Efforts to Save the Empire
M. Erdem Özgür
3 Re-evaluating Human Capital in Turkish Economic Thought: Another Case of German Influence
Erkan Gürpınar
Part II: Interwar Period and WWII Era
4 The Effects of Historismus and Staatswissenschaften on Kadro Thought and Policy
Eyüp Özveren
5 German Economists in Turkish Universities: Intellectual Migration and Institutional Transformation
Hakkı Bilen
6 German Refugee Economists and the Development of Turkish Economic Thought: A Study of Early Influences, Contributions, and Legacies
Nur Merve Kılıçkan
7 German Soft Power in Interwar Turkey: Economic Benefits and New Spheres of Influence
Mert Doğukan Perk
8 Blood, Soil, and Fertility: National Regeneration through the Rural Ideal in Interwar Germany and Turkey
M. Asım Karaömerlioğlu
9 Transforming Commercial Law in the Turkish Republic: The Legacy of Ernst Hirsch
Seven Ağır
Part III: Post-WWII to Contemporary Period
10 The Asiatic Mode of Production Debates in Turkey
Alp Yücel Kaya
11 Sencer Divitçioğlu (1927–2014) and the Asiatic Mode of Production Revisited
Altuğ Yalçıntaş
12 The 1961 German–Turkish Gastarbeiter Contract: The Shifting Dynamics of Turkish Migration to Germany
Alisait Yılkın
13 Building Bridges Through Football: Migration, Identity, and German Influence in Turkish Football
Tolga Genç
14 Post-World War II Economic Relations between Germany and Turkey: A Study of Influence and Partnership
Cem Dişbudak
Index
Biography
Jakob Kapeller is Professor of Socio- Economics at the Institute for Socio-Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University Duisburg- Essen, Germany. In addition, he is heading the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) at Johannes Kepler University Linz.
M. Erdem Özgür is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey.
