Hard Times: Turkey during the Great Depression

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Michele Penner Angrist
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
People's Party ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Turkish Economy ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
Volume Challenge

The essays contained in this volume challenge and complement standard treatments of Turkish history during the 1930s. Typically, the 1930s are cast as a decade that opened with the Turkish economy reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. Decisionmakers in the ruling Republican People's Party (RPP) were not without a response, however. They introduced statist economic policies whereby the Turkish state began to play an augmented role in production and capital accumulation. The conventional story thus chronicles the ruling elite's most visible policy reaction to the material hardships of the 1930s.

Anatolian Peasants in the Great Depression 1929–1933

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 79-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Akçetin
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Stock Market Crash ◽  
Sudden Drop ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Area Of Study

The effects of the Great Depression of 1929 on peasants in Turkey is an area of study that has remained neglected, despite the fact that peasants then constituted 75 percent of the population. The reason why the condition of peasants has not attracted much attention is the dramatic change between the economic policies of the 1920s and those of the 1930s. The immediate consequence of the stock-market crash and the sudden drop in prices was the shrinkage of international trade. Governments dealt with the depression by implementing quotas on imports, and liberal economic policies were no longer considered successful. Protectionism became the most popular policy for the management of economies in difficulty. The change in economic policies during this period constituted a break with the past and therefore has been the principal focus of studies on the Great Depression.

Chaplin’s Modern Times and the Great Depression: The Reception of the Film in the US, France and Britain

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvyn Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Us ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Hollywood Movies

Chaplin’s Modern Times confronted the effects of the Great Depression in a way unique for its socio-economic realism at the time of its mid-1930s making. In examining reception of the movie in the US, UK and France, this essay debunks notions that Hollywood movies were part of some uni-directional current of ‘Americanisation.’ It suggests instead that the differing national receptions reflected local circumstances and their own social, cultural and political identities and preoccupations. A complex transnational text, Hard Times was made by a Hollywood-based Englishman influenced by ideas developed on his world tour of 1931-32. Chaplin’s ‘Little Tramp,’ making what would prove his last film appearance, could therefore be interpreted with differing national contexts as a victim of industrialisation and the Great Depression, an inadvertent radical, a defender of order, or the ultimate survivor.

scholarly journals Public Schools in Hard Times: The Great Depression and Recent Years

1985 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 506
Author(s):  
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ◽  
David Tyack
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Hard Times

An Evaluation of the Economic Performance of Turkey in the 1930s Based on Late-Ottoman Economy

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 125-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Işık Özel
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Turbulent Transition ◽  
Turkish Economy ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Late Ottoman

The typical view of the Turkish economy in the 1930s generally has been that it not only performed well while coping with the hardship brought about by the Great Depression, but that it also received a big boost from the state's industrialization program. This usually has been characterized as the success of the economic policies implemented by the new republic in the 1930s. These policies have been considered successful because the young republic not only recovered from the wounds it suffered during the turbulent transition period from the Ottoman Empire, but it also began to realize considerably higher growth rates-mainly in industry, but also across the national economic spectrum.

scholarly journals Kako se nositi s ekonomskom depresijom: iskustvene i teorijske lekcije Velike depresije

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005
Author(s):  
Ognjen Radonjić
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Great Depression

The purpose of this paper is to explain not only why the Euro Area debt crisis does not subside, but also, why it deepens. We believe that the experience of the Great Depression can help economic theorists and officials to look at the problem from a different perspective since it is apparent that the economic orthodoxy and economic policies supported by its conventional wisdom do not provide desired results. Roosevelt’s fiscal activism and Keynes’ revolutionary theory deliver an answer to the question of why is, in crisis periods, vigorous reaction of economic authorities needed and why the free market is not able by itself to find way out of the fog, which, as time passes, becomes more and more dense.

The Great Depression: An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies

1999 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 653
Author(s):  
George Selgin ◽  
Thomas E. Hall ◽  
J. David Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Great Depression
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