By Hasan Cömert & T. Sabri ÖncüThis article first appeared in the Economic & Political Weekly on 18 March 2023.This article is the second in a series of articles on monetary policy debates in the age when deglobalisation became a buzzword. Here, we begin our discussion of the ongoing economic experiment in Turkey as an example to elaborate on these debates. In the third article, we will turn our attention to the post-2018 Turkish currency crisis phase of the experiment by focusing on...
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Ahmet Öncü & T.Sabri ÖncüThis article first appeared in the Economic & Political Weekly on 12 November 2022.Monetary Policy Debates in the Age of DeglobalisationThis article is the first in a series of two articles on monetary policy debates in the age in which deglobalisation is a buzzword. The ongoing monetary policy debates of the age will be discussed by focusing on macroprudential measures, capital controls and central bank independence in Part II.IntroductionIn a recent article,...
Read More »Waiting for Deglobalisation – I
Ahmet Öncü & T.Sabri ÖncüThis article first appeared in the Economic & Political Weekly on 12 November 2022.Monetary Policy Debates in the Age of DeglobalisationThis article is the first in a series of two articles on monetary policy debates in the age in which deglobalisation is a buzzword. The ongoing monetary policy debates of the age will be discussed by focusing on macroprudential measures, capital controls and central bank independence in Part II.IntroductionIn a recent article,...
Read More »Waiting for Deglobalisation – I
This article first appeared in the Economic & Political Weekly on 12 November 2022. Monetary Policy Debates in the Age of Deglobalisation This article is the first in a series of two articles on monetary policy debates in the age in which deglobalisation is a buzzword. The ongoing monetary policy debates of the age will be discussed by focusing on macroprudential measures, capital controls and central bank independence in Part II. Introduction In a recent article, Kornprobst and Wallace...
Read More »To Loot or Not to Loot? How Public-Private Partnerships Harmed Turkey
This article first appeared in the Indian journal Economic and Political Weekly on 18 July 2022.A Murder in KonyaKonya is a province in Turkey. On 6 July 2022, about an hour before I started writing this article, a murder news hit the Turkish pages of the internet: “In Konya City Hospital, a patient shot and killed a cardiologist and his secretary today.” Whether the assassin committed suicide or the private security killed him is unknown, although there are both rumours.City hospitals, the...
Read More »To Loot or Not to Loot? How Public-Private Partnerships Harmed Turkey
This article first appeared in the Indian journal Economic and Political Weekly on 18 July 2022.A Murder in KonyaKonya is a province in Turkey. On 6 July 2022, about an hour before I started writing this article, a murder news hit the Turkish pages of the internet: “In Konya City Hospital, a patient shot and killed a cardiologist and his secretary today.” Whether the assassin committed suicide or the private security killed him is unknown, although there are both rumours.City hospitals, the...
Read More »To Loot or Not to Loot? How Public-Private Partnerships Harmed Turkey
This article first appeared in the Indian journal Economic and Political Weekly on 18 July 2022. A Murder in Konya Konya is a province in Turkey. On 6 July 2022, about an hour before I started writing this article, a murder news hit the Turkish pages of the internet: “In Konya City Hospital, a patient shot and killed a cardiologist and his secretary today.” Whether the assassin committed suicide or the private security killed him is unknown, although there are both rumours. City hospitals,...
Read More »Lending and Profiteering – Lessons from Argentina’s Recent Debt Problems
Over 30 years ago, Kunibert Raffer (University of Vienna) was first to propose a fair and transparent arbitration process between debtors and creditors for resolving sovereign insolvency, by analogy with Chapter 9 US Bankruptcy Code that provides for an orderly resolution in cases of municipal bankruptcy. (See his paper “What’s good for the United States must be good for the World – Advocating an International Chapter 9 Insolvency”). He is a long-standing critic of the IMF in its lending...
Read More »Lending and Profiteering – Lessons from Argentina’s Recent Debt Problems
Over 30 years ago, Kunibert Raffer (University of Vienna) was first to propose a fair and transparent arbitration process between debtors and creditors for resolving sovereign insolvency, by analogy with Chapter 9 US Bankruptcy Code that provides for an orderly resolution in cases of municipal bankruptcy. (See his paper “What’s good for the United States must be good for the World – Advocating an International Chapter 9 Insolvency”). He is a long-standing critic of the IMF in its lending...
Read More »Lending and Profiteering – Lessons from Argentina’s Recent Debt Problems
Over 30 years ago, Kunibert Raffer (University of Vienna) was first to propose a fair and transparent arbitration process between debtors and creditors for resolving sovereign insolvency, by analogy with Chapter 9 US Bankruptcy Code that provides for an orderly resolution in cases of municipal bankruptcy. (See his paper “What’s good for the United States must be good for the World – Advocating an International Chapter 9 Insolvency”). He is a long-standing critic of the IMF in its lending...
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