The first comprehensive history of the Turkish economy
The population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now. In Uneven Centuries, ?evket Pamuk examines the economic growth and human development of Turkey over the past two hundred years.
Taking a comparative global perspective, Pamuk investigates Turkey's economic history through four periods: the open economy during the nineteenth-century Ottoman era, the transition from empire to nation-state that spanned the two world wars and the Great Depression, the continued protectionism and import-substituting industrialization after World War II, and the neoliberal policies and the opening of the economy after 1980. Making use of indices of GDP per capita, trade, wages, health, and education, Pamuk argues that Turkey's long-term economic trends cannot be explained only by immediate causes such as economic policies, rates of investment, productivity growth, and structural change.
Uneven Centuries offers a deeper analysis of the essential forces underlying Turkey's development—its institutions and their evolution—to make better sense of the country's unique history and to provide important insights into the patterns of growth in developing countries during the past two centuries.
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Figure
1.1.
GDP
per
Capita
in
Turkey,
1820–2015
(PPP
adjusted
and
in
1990
US
dollars).
Sources:
Pamuk
2006
for
Turkey
until
1950;
Maddison
2007,
pp.
375–86;
Bolt
and
Van
Zanden
2014;
also
see
the
discussion
and
sources
cited
in
chapter
2.
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1960
1980
2000
100
1,000
10,000
Figure
1.2.
GDP
per
Capita
in
Turkey
and
the
World,
1820–2015
(PPP
adjusted
and
as
percentage
of
Western
Europe
and
the
United
States).
Sources:
Pamuk
2006
for
Turkey
until
1950;
Maddison
2007,
pp.
375–86;
Bolt
and
Van
Zanden
2014;
also
see
the
discussion
and
sources
cited
in
chapter
2.
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
1820
1870
1913
1939
1950
1980
2015
Turkey
World
Developing
countries
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Economic Growth and Human Development since 1820
- 3. Institutions and the Ottoman Past
- 4. Reforms and Deficits: Ottoman Response to European Challenges
- 5. Opening to Foreign Trade and Investment
- 6. Economic Development and Institutional Change, 1820-1914
- 7. From Empire to Nation-State
- 8. Economic Development and Institutional Change, 1914-1950
- 9. Inward-Oriented Development after World War II
- 10. Economic Development and Institutional Change, 1950-1980
- 11. Neoliberal Policies and Globalization
- 12. Economic Development and Institutional Change, 1980-2015
- 13. Conclusion
- References
- Index
- A Note on the Type
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