Neoliberal Turkey and Its Discontents: Economic Policy and the Environment Under Erdogan

ISBN-13: 9781784538729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Fikret Adaman

Opis

The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal.

O autorze

Fikret Adaman (BA and MA in Economics at Bogazici University; PhD in Economics at Manchester University) is currently Professor of Economics and Vice-Rector at Bogazici University. He is currently acting as an expert on social inclusion to the European Commission. With Bengi Akbulut he broadcasts frequently in Turkey, criticizing the modernization move that disregards social and ecological costs. Bengi Akbulut (BA in Economics at Bogazici University; PhD in Economics at UMASS) is an independent researcher on the social policy, political ecology, political economy of Turkey. Her recent work has been published in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Development and Change, and the Cambridge Journal of Economics.Murat Arsel (BA in Economics and Government at Clark University, MA in Politics of the World Economy at the LSE, MPhil in Environment and Development and PhD in Human Geography at University of Cambridge) is Associate Professor of Environment and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (The Hague) of Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is currently co-chair of the editorial board of Development and Change and held the Keyman Family Visiting Professorship in Modern Turkish Studies at Northwestern University in 2014.