CIAO DATE: 09/2011
Volume: 10, Issue: 1
March 2008
Akyiğitzade Musa and Economics (PDF)
Ömer Karaoğlu
Akyiğitzade Musa, who was a Kazan Turk, brought the conceptions of protectionism. The first chapter of his book ( İlm-i Servet veyahut İlm-i İktisat) as being the major work of Akyiğitzade, was dealing with the historical evolution of Western economic thought stemmed from Ancient Greek and Roman thoughts while comparing them with the Islamic tradition. Moreover, Akyiğitzade in this book was stating the importance of the rupture in the economic thought and policies in the eighteenth century, Akyiğitzade Musa was highlighting the urgency of the application of protec-tionist principles by the reigning government and his contentment in the concordance of the principles he had quoted from List and Paul Cauwes and the practical requirements of the government. Akyiğitzade was also in the group that established one of the earliest Turkish nationalist groups of Ottoman Empire, that is to say, Türk Derneği (Turkic Association). Aky-iğitzade was a man of modern concepts and as the follower of the idea of nationalism. He was a significant character of the modern economic concepts in the late Ottoman period. He was a nationalist and faithful of Enlightenment.
Foreign Investment from Ottoman times to the our Age (PDF)
Sefer Şener, Cüneyt Kılıç
In this study foreign capital term was taken in general containing all kind of foreign income. Besides definitions and details it was attempted to determine which phase’s foreign capital has passed. Foreign capital that was important today as, it was in the rest was evaluated by means of history. The aim is to bring us foreign capital to be important every period of time beyond being a phenomenon that come into being today. In this respect a period from 1840 to today was taken in to scope. It was attempted to form systematization by gathering statistical numbers from different resources. Moreover these numbers were interpreted by means of economy policies. That study shows that foreign capital has a long history in Turkey. Just as the entire world in Turkey too foreign capital that first came to country by the depths changed its shell. Later on capital movements make huge effects on countries. In today’s term that is achieved parallel to globalization. By this respect in the study the effects of foreign capital came to Turkey is at-tempted to bring up.
Unfinished Symphony: Turkish Political Crises (PDF)
Hamza Al
It is a well-known fact that the crises are in the Turkish political life are abound and the Turkish political life faces crises at certain intervals. The fact that crises have become a common feature of the Turkish political life raises the doubt that they have not been dealt properly. Governments usually follow a policy of neglecting and managing crises fort he time being. Although, this kind of policy helps the system continue for a period of time, it can not prevent crises to emerge again. The important point is to find a lasting solution to crises. This in turn requires a through analysis of the fac-tors which create crises. The present work, firstly, focuses on crises man-agement, and then deals with the actors and factors which are responsible for the crises in the Turkish political life. It is argued that the main reason for the problems is not, as the latest presidency crises has aptly shown, human factor but the system itself.
Religious Aspects of the Loss of Social Capital in Turk (PDF)
Mustafa Kemal Şan
A series of development theories were constructed especially after the World II to alleviate the unequal situation of societies. The most significant of these theories is the modernization theory. For modernization theory, societies could be classified as developed, developing and under-developed in the measure of an assumed Western developmental linearity. According-ly, societies below levels of Western societies are offered the policies of total development. However the assumptions of the modernization theory have been questioned: are all societies to follow the same linear developmental stages and can development solely be understood in economical terms? In the wake of these reservations, we have seen the rise of the concept of social capital as a new model of social development. Social capital is based on the criteria of range of trust in a society and thus takes into account of the material and moral development of societies. The concept of social capital enables us to grasp the absent /lacking element in the wealthy socie-ties and motivating factors of certain societies in the development. In this article we discuss the concept of social capital as a component of societal advancement and its implications for us in Turkey. We especially analyze how the debates on religious subjects in the process of modernization have wasted the re-sources of social capital in Turkey.
An Evaluation of Internationa Comperative Advatages in Turkish Furniture Industry (PDF)
Koray Gürpınar, Mehmet Barca
This study aims to find out the views of managers regarding the sources of competitive advantage of Turkish furniture industry in international markets. Towards this end, the industry’s competitive advantage has been investigated in two stages: In the first stage, the competitive advantage of the industry has been tried to be determined using secondary sources. In the second stage, the competitive advantage has been evaluated with a survey which collects the people’s opinions who have management positions in the industry about the sources of the advantage, and their expectations for the future of the industry. In the light of data collected, the study reached the conclusions that in the last years furniture industry has gained competitive advantage in international markets and the sources of this competitive ad-vantage have been the shift from cost focus strategy to differentiation strategy. This conclusion is not parallel to those of the previous studies which explained the advantage through cost-based explanations. With this different conclusion, the study proposes a new explanation regarding the sources of competitive advantage of the industry.