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immoral growth

Turkish football versus Turkish economy

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the parallelism between Turkish football and Turkish economy. Turkish economy resembles Turkish football in many aspects (or vice versa, there is huge cultural element in both). At least the self-brainstorming made me to write this short piece. Before the 1980s we cannot really think of Turkish football. Okay, maybe a […]

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Immoral growth

The term “jobless growth” was coined in the 1930s to explain the situation of the US economy. The economy grew but did not create enough jobs. The economy bureaucrats in Turkey are mesmerized by numbers. In all occasions they mention how the Turkish economy skyrocketed. But if you put the numbers aside for a while […]

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