On the Possibility of a “Soviet of Techniciansâ€

Ahmet Öncü

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 1, 67-82

Abstract: Contrary 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.

Keywords: cumulative causation; institutions; business; natural rights; capitalism; class struggle; UCTEA; hisba; Ottoman guilds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N9 N95 P1 P16 P5 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613415603162

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