The Political Economy of Turkey

Turkey stands at a crossroad after a decade of adjustment to its severe debt crisis in the late 1970s. This volume brings together a group of contributors who discuss the consequences of this transition and the likely pains for the future.

Autorentext
Dani Rodrik is one of the world's top economists, well known for his original and prescient analyses of globalization and economic development. His ideas on improving national and global economic policies-in the fields of trade, industry, finance, and growth-have been highly influential among economists and policy makers alike. His 1997 book Has Globalization Gone Too Far? was called one of the decade's best economics books in Business Week. Rodrik's syndicated monthly columns for the Project Syndicate network are published in scores of newspapers around the world. His blog, "Unconventional thoughts on economic development and globalization" is widely read and frequently cited in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times and The Economist. In 2007, he was recognized as the first recipient of the prestigious Albert O. Hirschman award of the Social Science Research Council (New York).

Inhalt
Turkey's trade liberalization in the 1980s and prospects for its sustainability, Tercan Baysan and Charles Blitzer; fiscal aspects of adjustment in the 1980s, Merih Celasun; an assessment of the pattern of Turkish manufactured export growth in the 1980s and its prospects, Fikret Senses; the record on private investment in Turkey, Patrick Conway; financial system and policies in Turkey in the 1980s, Yilmaz Akyuz; the private sector's response to financial liberalization in Turkey - 1980-2, Izak Atiyas; external balance and growth in Turkey - can they be reconciled?, Ritu Anand, Ajay Chhibber and Sweder van Wijnbergen; some policy dilemmas in Turkish macroeconomic management, Dani Rodrik; inter-class and intra-class relations of distribution under "structural adjustment" - Turkey during the 1980s, Korkut Boratav; the political economy of Turkey's external debt - the bearing of exogenous factors, Tosun Aricanli; Turkish debt and conditionality in historical perspective - a comparison of the 1980s with the 1860s , Emine Kiray; Turkish experience - summary and comparative notes, Lance Taylor