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Türkiye'de Yeni Kapitalizm: Siyaset, Din ve İş Dünyası
Türkiye’de Yeni Kapitalizm siyaset, din ve iş dünyası arasındaki ilişkilerin kapitalist küreselleşme süreci içinde geçirdiği değişimi,Türkiye’de iş hayatının ekonomik, siyasi ve kültürel bağlamındaki yansımalarıyla inceliyor. Siyasetin girişimcileri ve girişimci örgütlerini nasıl etkilediğini, bu siyasi etkilerle biçimlenen iş dünyası içinde farklı gruplar tarafından benimsenen farklı kapitalist gelişme modellerinin ortaya çıkışını ve bu ortamda dinin oynadığı hem birleştirici hem de kutuplaştırıcı rolü ele alıyor.
Bu teorik yönden bilgilendirici kitap, Türkiye’nin ekonomi politiğinin en güçlü analizlerinden birini sunuyor. Buğra ve Savaşkan, iddiaya göre kendi ayakları üzerinde duran “küçük” girişimcilerin Türkiye’nin başarısının belkemiğini oluşturduğu yolundaki mitleri yok ediyor. Bu kitabı okuduktan sonra kimse piyasalar ve piyasa aktörleriyle ilgili eskisi gibi düşünemeyecek.
Cihan Ziya Tuğal
Kaliforniya Üniversitesi, Berkeley, ABD
Bu etkileyici çalışma, Türkiye’yi ekonomi politik ve karşılaştırmalı siyaset haritasına güçlü bir biçimde yerleştiriyor. Neoliberalizm çağında devlet, demokrasi ve kapitalist gelişme arasındaki ilişki hakkında bildiğimiz şeylere şaşırtıcı yönler ekliyor. Aynı zamanda kapitalizmin çevresinde yer alan yükselen ekonomilerdeki ekonomik değişim ve sınıf oluşumu süreçlerinde dinin oynadığı role yeni açıklamalar getiriyor.
Wolfgang Streeck
The New School for Social Research, ABD
Bu teorik yönden bilgilendirici kitap, Türkiye’nin ekonomi politiğinin en güçlü analizlerinden birini sunuyor. Buğra ve Savaşkan, iddiaya göre kendi ayakları üzerinde duran “küçük” girişimcilerin Türkiye’nin başarısının belkemiğini oluşturduğu yolundaki mitleri yok ediyor. Bu kitabı okuduktan sonra kimse piyasalar ve piyasa aktörleriyle ilgili eskisi gibi düşünemeyecek.
Cihan Ziya Tuğal
Kaliforniya Üniversitesi, Berkeley, ABD
Bu etkileyici çalışma, Türkiye’yi ekonomi politik ve karşılaştırmalı siyaset haritasına güçlü bir biçimde yerleştiriyor. Neoliberalizm çağında devlet, demokrasi ve kapitalist gelişme arasındaki ilişki hakkında bildiğimiz şeylere şaşırtıcı yönler ekliyor. Aynı zamanda kapitalizmin çevresinde yer alan yükselen ekonomilerdeki ekonomik değişim ve sınıf oluşumu süreçlerinde dinin oynadığı role yeni açıklamalar getiriyor.
Wolfgang Streeck
The New School for Social Research, ABD
- GenresEconomics
296 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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February 27, 2025
Ayse Bugra, for all of those who don't know yet, is a must-read to understand Turkey. Her work gives us a better analysis in understanding the power dynamics through the development of capitalist market economy in Turkey. Devlet ve Isadamlari (loosely translated as State and Businessman) had given us an understading of the difficulties in creating cooperation between the state, capitalist and the workers. It contrasts how Japon and S.Korea achieved this cooperation (mostly leaving workers behind but still being able to create a functional environment for investment). We saw how the crony nature of Turkish Capitalist occurred as a reaction to the inability to create a long-term relationship with the state and needed to produce a informal relationship with the whichever government ruled at the time. This is symbiotic paradoxe where capitalist try to grow through the government and government gets legitimacy and power by ruling over capitalist in a short term friendship. Governments fall, crises and riots occur, coup d'etats take place and we finally come to our contemporary starting point. Here Ayse Bugra shows us the parallels and diffferences of AKP (turkish acronmys of Justice and Development Party of Erdogan) and its relationship with the Capitalist class.
Like all previous governments, AKP created its own capitalist class. Most grew through government backed monopolies by trading foreign goods with high turnover in Turkey like Koc and Sabanci (very respectable Turkish Capitalist groups) who are relatively secular, since they inherited characteristics from the government that created them, CHP, the party Ataturk founded. AKP, playing the game with the same strategy had a few slicks uo their sleves. They did the same thing, created a Capitalist Class with their pseudo-islamic and pseudo-conservative values.
However as we can see from the book by consolidating more and more power by continiously creating weird and unsual coalitions (I use the terms to express consolidating different voters, not sharing government) AKP become the absolute power. Anyone who wanted to make money needed Erdogan, le nouveau roi de soleil.
Erdogans experience in his time as Istanbuls new and upcoming mayor was not in vain. He knew the nitty gritty of construction rent and this book gives us a detailed history of the PPP's.
Construction boom, health becoming a commodity, state channeling the funding for projects, giving foreign credit and internalizing the risk and effectively creating money to its own capitalist class. Tradional Capitalist jumped on board from the get go, they were creating by this game, they knew how to play it.
But now the pie has become smaller and smaller. Exploting workers is not enough to grow Turkey's wealth. You cannot understand the current Turkish policy without having the lenses of this political economy. Bugra's Polanian insticts give us a major clue, the duality of government/private analysis falls short, one needs to understand the concept of reciproxity to understand most developing nations, but more so for AKP and contemporary Turkey.
If my understading of Turkey is correct, not much will change after AKP. Sure we will leave the middle-ages that warped our world in to an islamic parody, but we won't create a sustainable cooperative relationship between the state, capital and labor.
Like all previous governments, AKP created its own capitalist class. Most grew through government backed monopolies by trading foreign goods with high turnover in Turkey like Koc and Sabanci (very respectable Turkish Capitalist groups) who are relatively secular, since they inherited characteristics from the government that created them, CHP, the party Ataturk founded. AKP, playing the game with the same strategy had a few slicks uo their sleves. They did the same thing, created a Capitalist Class with their pseudo-islamic and pseudo-conservative values.
However as we can see from the book by consolidating more and more power by continiously creating weird and unsual coalitions (I use the terms to express consolidating different voters, not sharing government) AKP become the absolute power. Anyone who wanted to make money needed Erdogan, le nouveau roi de soleil.
Erdogans experience in his time as Istanbuls new and upcoming mayor was not in vain. He knew the nitty gritty of construction rent and this book gives us a detailed history of the PPP's.
Construction boom, health becoming a commodity, state channeling the funding for projects, giving foreign credit and internalizing the risk and effectively creating money to its own capitalist class. Tradional Capitalist jumped on board from the get go, they were creating by this game, they knew how to play it.
But now the pie has become smaller and smaller. Exploting workers is not enough to grow Turkey's wealth. You cannot understand the current Turkish policy without having the lenses of this political economy. Bugra's Polanian insticts give us a major clue, the duality of government/private analysis falls short, one needs to understand the concept of reciproxity to understand most developing nations, but more so for AKP and contemporary Turkey.
If my understading of Turkey is correct, not much will change after AKP. Sure we will leave the middle-ages that warped our world in to an islamic parody, but we won't create a sustainable cooperative relationship between the state, capital and labor.
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