ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: THE CASE OF AHMET MIDHAT EFENDI

The purpose of this thesis is to present the concept of entrepreneurship in Ottoman economic thought through an analysis of Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s understanding of entrepreneurship, and his own economic enterprises. I will employ Ahmet Midhat Efendi and his concept of entrepreneurship to describe the...

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Autor principal:	Yahya AYYILDIZ
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Publicado:	Fırat University 2019
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:597c5051337c43f58d9c546dff6154b52021-11-24T09:20:46ZENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: THE CASE OF AHMET MIDHAT EFENDI2148-416310.9761/JASSS7091https://doaj.org/article/597c5051337c43f58d9c546dff6154b52019-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jasstudies.com/index.jsp?mod=tammetin&makaleadi=1147171926_36-Ara%C5%9Ft%C4%B1rmac%C4%B1%20Yahya%20Ayy%C4%B1ld%C4%B1z.pdf&key=28334https://doaj.org/toc/2148-4163The purpose of this thesis is to present the concept of entrepreneurship in Ottoman economic thought through an analysis of Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s understanding of entrepreneurship, and his own economic enterprises. I will employ Ahmet Midhat Efendi and his concept of entrepreneurship to describe the process through which the classical economic system of the Ottoman Empire dissolved and got integrated into capitalist world system. An entrepreneur is someone who establishes and runs a business firm by bringing labour, capital and natural sources together with a view to making a profit, and who takes the risk of such an enterprise. There are two forms of economic entrepreneurship: traditional and capitalist. Capitalist entrepreneur is someone who acknowledges the unlimited accumulation of capital as the sole valid law. Ottoman Empire failed to keep up with the transformation of the world in the modern era, which was a transformation whose motor force was the capitalist entrepreneurship. Because of this failure, Ottoman Empire had to integrate her economy into capitalist world system with the Treaty of Baltalimanı (1838). Post-Baltalimani Ottoman economic scene reveals characteristics both of traditional and capitalist entrepreneurships, and the co-existence of these two models is visible in Ahmet Midhat Efendi who was a contemporary intellectual and entrepreneur. Ahmet Midhat Efendi was a printer, and started several newspapers and periodicals. Besides, he is the first to offer bottled water to the market and founder of Sırmakeş Bottled Water Company, which survived to this day with the same name. The modern farm that he founded in Beykoz is the first farm in Ottoman territory to try and to use incubators, modern beehives, and scions. Ahmet Midhat Efendi is in a sense the prototype of the two centuries long adventure of Turkey through both his understanding of entrepreneurship and his own economic enterprises.Yahya AYYILDIZFırat Universityarticleentrepreneurshipcapitalismcommerceahmet mSocial SciencesHSocial sciences (General)H1-99DEENFRTRJournal of Academic Social Science Studies , Vol 10, Iss 57, Pp 587-596 (2019)
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description	The purpose of this thesis is to present the concept of entrepreneurship in Ottoman economic thought through an analysis of Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s understanding of entrepreneurship, and his own economic enterprises. I will employ Ahmet Midhat Efendi and his concept of entrepreneurship to describe the process through which the classical economic system of the Ottoman Empire dissolved and got integrated into capitalist world system. An entrepreneur is someone who establishes and runs a business firm by bringing labour, capital and natural sources together with a view to making a profit, and who takes the risk of such an enterprise. There are two forms of economic entrepreneurship: traditional and capitalist. Capitalist entrepreneur is someone who acknowledges the unlimited accumulation of capital as the sole valid law. Ottoman Empire failed to keep up with the transformation of the world in the modern era, which was a transformation whose motor force was the capitalist entrepreneurship. Because of this failure, Ottoman Empire had to integrate her economy into capitalist world system with the Treaty of Baltalimanı (1838). Post-Baltalimani Ottoman economic scene reveals characteristics both of traditional and capitalist entrepreneurships, and the co-existence of these two models is visible in Ahmet Midhat Efendi who was a contemporary intellectual and entrepreneur. Ahmet Midhat Efendi was a printer, and started several newspapers and periodicals. Besides, he is the first to offer bottled water to the market and founder of Sırmakeş Bottled Water Company, which survived to this day with the same name. The modern farm that he founded in Beykoz is the first farm in Ottoman territory to try and to use incubators, modern beehives, and scions. Ahmet Midhat Efendi is in a sense the prototype of the two centuries long adventure of Turkey through both his understanding of entrepreneurship and his own economic enterprises.
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title	ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: THE CASE OF AHMET MIDHAT EFENDI
title_short	ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: THE CASE OF AHMET MIDHAT EFENDI
title_full	ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: THE CASE OF AHMET MIDHAT EFENDI
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: THE CASE OF AHMET MIDHAT EFENDI

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