Alper Duman
@alperduman.bsky.social
Paul Lafargueist, works on networks
Productive but poor Turkey. Employment rate is low. Why? Capitalists do not accumulate capital. They accumulate wealth.
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Productive but poor Turkey. Employment rate is low. Why? Capitalists do not accumulate capital. They accumulate wealth.
Nitekim yatırım mali ithalatı bırakın artmayı azalmış. Neyin verimliliği bu :)
September 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Nitekim yatırım mali ithalatı bırakın artmayı azalmış. Neyin verimliliği bu :)
This is the real poverty rate in Turkey, 61%.
July 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is the real poverty rate in Turkey, 61%.
Quite an assumption indeed. The assumption is about Baran's ratio (share of investment out of surplus). I have done a bit about that couple of years ago. Mean is around 60%; less so in developing countries such as in Turkey.
June 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Quite an assumption indeed. The assumption is about Baran's ratio (share of investment out of surplus). I have done a bit about that couple of years ago. Mean is around 60%; less so in developing countries such as in Turkey.
Here is why RTE lost the local elections in 2019 and won the presidential elections in 2023; and why is in deep shit currently!
April 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Here is why RTE lost the local elections in 2019 and won the presidential elections in 2023; and why is in deep shit currently!
OECD projections on Turkey miserably fail yet again. Current account deficit as a percentage of GDP surpassed 1% in just 2 months of 2025. Oecd projection was 0.4% for the whole year.
April 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
OECD projections on Turkey miserably fail yet again. Current account deficit as a percentage of GDP surpassed 1% in just 2 months of 2025. Oecd projection was 0.4% for the whole year.
Hopefully we are witnessing punctuated equilibria dynamic in politics of Turkey
March 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Hopefully we are witnessing punctuated equilibria dynamic in politics of Turkey
Top 1% total income in Turkey amounted to 265 billion dollars. Much greater than the GDPs of 100s of countries.
January 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Top 1% total income in Turkey amounted to 265 billion dollars. Much greater than the GDPs of 100s of countries.
Nice to see a respectful bow to Marx in a top-5 journal
December 28, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Nice to see a respectful bow to Marx in a top-5 journal
There seems a relation between antisocial punishment (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and prevalence of kinship norms proxied by fertility rates (www.jstor.org/stable/25487...).
December 3, 2024 at 11:58 AM
There seems a relation between antisocial punishment (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and prevalence of kinship norms proxied by fertility rates (www.jstor.org/stable/25487...).
Bu verimlilikte bu ne?
November 29, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Bu verimlilikte bu ne?
Yüzyıllık kapitalizm serüveninde buradayız. Yetenekli Bay Şimşek'in açıklaması gereken de bu vaziyet.
November 29, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Yüzyıllık kapitalizm serüveninde buradayız. Yetenekli Bay Şimşek'in açıklaması gereken de bu vaziyet.
For the richer countries, they are! So institutions are like public goods with a threshold of financing! Development and institutions are co-evolving. Rather than institutions are primary.
November 28, 2024 at 1:45 PM
For the richer countries, they are! So institutions are like public goods with a threshold of financing! Development and institutions are co-evolving. Rather than institutions are primary.
If institutions such as Rule of Law is good for income, then they should be good for the countries below the median income. But they are not! (source: from World Development Indicators, 2023 data)
November 28, 2024 at 1:43 PM
If institutions such as Rule of Law is good for income, then they should be good for the countries below the median income. But they are not! (source: from World Development Indicators, 2023 data)
The highest growth rate of community associations was obviously in religious associations between 1946-1970. Probably it went on growing exponentially.
November 23, 2024 at 9:08 PM
The highest growth rate of community associations was obviously in religious associations between 1946-1970. Probably it went on growing exponentially.
Religious communities in Turkey. We do not know the numbers in each. But presumably the biggest one are Süleymancılar, Menzil and İsmailaağa after the demise of Gülen.
November 23, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Religious communities in Turkey. We do not know the numbers in each. But presumably the biggest one are Süleymancılar, Menzil and İsmailaağa after the demise of Gülen.