1st Edition

Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire

By Deniz Kilinçoğlu Copyright 2015
248 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

Is it possible to generate "capitalist spirit" in a society, where cultural, economic and political conditions did not unfold into an industrial revolution, and consequently into an advanced industrial-capitalist formation? This is exactly what some prominent public intellectuals in the late Ottoman Empire tried to achieve as a developmental strategy; long before Max Weber defined the notion of... Read more

Chapter 1. Ottoman Society, Economy, and Economics in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 2. Ottomanization of Economics Chapter 3. The Economic Idea of Society and Social Change for Development Chapter 4. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Economic Development Chapter 5. Changing Hearts and Minds: Economic Thought in Late Ottoman Fiction

Biography

Deniz T. Kılınçoğlu received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2012. He currently teaches economics and history at the Middle East Technical University-Northern Cyprus Campus, Cyprus.