On the possibility of a "Soviet of technicians": Veblen's cumulative causation applied to the Turkish case

Öncü, Ahmet (2017) On the possibility of a "Soviet of technicians": Veblen's cumulative causation applied to the Turkish case. Review of Radical Political Economics, 49 (1). pp. 67-82. ISSN 0486-6134 (Print) 1552-8502 (Online)

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Abstract

C ontrary to his theoretical expectations, Veblen provided various reasons as to why a revolutionary overturn by the technicians was a remote possibility in America. In contrast to the American engineers, the engineers of Turkey have constructed an engineering outlook commensurate with Veblen's abstract line of reasoning and participated in a political struggle against business interests. In this paper, using Veblen's cumulative causation methodology, a theoretical answer for the origin, growth, persistence, and variation of the anti-business engineering outlook in Turkey is suggested.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: cumulative causation; institutions; business; natural rights; capitalism; class struggle; UCTEA; hisba; Ottoman guilds
Divisions: Sabancı Business School
Sabancı Business School > Management and Strategy
Depositing User: Ahmet Öncü
Date Deposited: 11 May 2017 15:40
Last Modified: 22 Jun 2017 12:41
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/31327

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