Mali Sosyoloji ve Veblen’in Kapitalizm Eleştirisi: Sosyal İktisat ve 2008 Krizi için Düşünceler

Year 2020, Volume: 28 Issue: 43, 295 - 311, 25.01.2020

Ceyhun Gürkan

https://doi.org/10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.01.17

Abstract

Bu yazı sosyal iktisada ve 2008 krizine dair yeni düşünceler geliştirmek üzere mali sosyolojiyi ve Veblen’in kapitalizm eleştirisini gözden geçirmektedir. Yazı tarihi, politik iktisadı, siyaset bilimini, toplumsal felsefeyi ve etiği harmanlayan disiplinlerarası bir yaklaşım benimsemektedir. Yazı mali sosyolojinin eski ve yeni tarzları ile Veblen’in iktisat sosyolojisinin neoliberalizmin tarihini, bugünkü koşullarını ve geleceğini ve ayrıca krizini anlamada nasıl kullanılabileceğinin yolunu göstermektedir. Çalışma mali sosyoloji ve Veblen’in sosyolojik ve eleştirel kurumsal iktisadının eleştirel sosyal iktisat alanında yeni düşünceler geliştirmek ve devletin mali krizi olgusunu incelemede güçlü bir potansiyel sunduğu sonucuna ulaşmaktadır.

Keywords

Mali Sosyoloji, Veblen, 2008 Krizi, Kapitalizm, Neoliberalizm

Fiscal Sociology and Veblen’s Critique of Capitalism: Insights for Social Economics and the 2008 Crisis

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review fiscal sociology and Veblen’s critique of capitalism with an eye to developing new insights for social economics and the 2008 crisis. The paper adopts an interdisciplinary approach that blends history, political economy, politics, sociology, social philosophy, and ethics. The article demonstrates how old and new strands of fiscal sociology and Veblen’s economic sociology can be employed to develop a comprehensive understanding of history, present conditions and future of neoliberalism as well as its current crisis. The paper concludes that fiscal sociology and Veblen’s sociological and critical institutional economics have the great potential to develop new insights into critical social economics and the fiscal crisis of the state.

Keywords

Fiscal Sociology, Veblen, 2008 Crisis, Capitalism, Neoliberalism

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