Economic Ideas Across Borders : A History of German Influence on Turkish Economics

Exploring the cross-cultural exchange of ideas between German and Turkish scholars, policymakers, and institutions, this book sheds light on how German theories were interpreted and applied in Turkey during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Situating the flow of ideas within broader patterns of economic globalization, the contributors to this edited volume explore historical, economic, and ideological developments in Turkey and Germany. Within economic thought, there is a particular focus on the influence of the German Historical School in Turkish economic thought; the contributions of German refugee scholars in the 1930s, through their publications, courses they offered, and their relations with the other members of academia; and Marxian Asiatic Mode of Production debates of the 1960s. In terms of economic policy, the book also discusses agrarian populism in the 1930s, German soft power in interwar Turkey, the first Gastarbeiter Agreement and its effects, German investments in Turkey after the World War II, and the role of sports in shaping relations between Germany and Turkey.

The book will be of great interest to readers in the history of economic thought, intellectual history, economic history, and the histories of Germany and Turkey more broadly.

Jakob Kapeller is Professor of Socio- Economics at the Institute for Socio-Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University Duisburg- Essen, Germany. In addition, he is heading the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) at Johannes Kepler University Linz.

M. Erdem Özgür is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey.