İnsanı insan yapan temel nitelik, insanın dil sayesinde diğer insanlarla iletişim kurması, “oturup konuşması”, “tartışması”, “eleştiri yapmasıdır.” Bu anlamda çalışmanın temel hipotezi, insanın bu doğal niteliğinin bilimsel düşünce için de geçerli...

As a social science, economics cannot be reduced to simply an a priori science or an ideology. In addition economics cannot be solely an empirical or a historical science. Economics is a research field which studies only one dimension of human behavior, with the four fields of mathematics,...

The share of government expenditures in GDP has displayed steady increase in both developed and developing countries during the 20th century. This observation has led economists to explore the reasons and the underlying mechanism both theoretically and empirically. Several hypotheses on the...

The paper mainly examines the relationship between economic growth, tax policy and sectoral labor distribution in an endogenous growth model with expanding varieties. For analyzing these relationships, we consider an economy where three sectors of production are vertically integrated: final...

How large are welfare costs related to economic aggregate fluctuations is a topic of great concern among economists at least since Lucas's (1987) model. Our analysis assesses the magnitude of such costs for Turkey by means of two approaches: aggregate and disaggregate. The former approach uses...