Şevket Pamuk,
Professor of Economics and Economic History


The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History and Department of Economics
Bogaziçi (Bosphorus) University
34342 Bebek-Istanbul / Turkey

e-mail:  pamuk@boun.edu.tr and s.pamuk@lse.ac.uk
phone:  +90-212-359 65 80 / 359 76 06
fax:       +90-212-265 80 03 (Atatürk Institute)































   


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


Selected Books:


Ottoman Economy and Its Institutions, Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate Publishers, Farnham, Surrey, 2009, xii + 290 pp.

Osmanlıdan Cumhuriyete Küreselleşme, Iktisat Politikaları ve Büyüme (From the Ottoman Era to the Republic, Globalisation, Economic Policies and Growth), Selected Articles by Ş. Pamuk, Vol. II, Türkiye Iş Bankasi Kultur Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2008, 364 pp.

Osmanlı Ekonomisi ve Kurumları (The Ottoman Economy and Its Institutions), Selected Articles by Ş. Pamuk, Vol. I, Türkiye Iş Bankasi Kultur Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2007, 211 pp. (Third printing, 2009)

Monetary and Fiscal Policies in South-East Europe, Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Conference Proceedings jointly edited with Roumen Avramov, Bulgarian National Bank, Sofia, 2006.

A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2000, 276 pp.; paperback edition, 2004.

The above volume has been published in Turkish as Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Paranın Tarihi, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, Istanbul, April 1999; 2nd printing: 2000; Third printing, 2003.

Edition in Arabic : Beirut, Lebanon, 2004.

A History of the Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century (written jointly with Professor Roger Owen of Harvard University), I.B. Tauris Publishers and Harvard University Press, London and Cambridge, Mass. 1998, 290 pp.; Turkish translation: 20. Yüzyılda Orta Doğu Ekonomileri Tarihi, Sabancı University Press, 2002.

The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1850, (selected papers edited jointly with Professor Jeffrey Williamson of Harvard University), Routledge Press, London and New York, 2000.

Artık Herkes Milyoner, Türkiye Ekonomisinin 50 Yılı (Everybody is Now a Millionaire, Last 50 Years of the Turkish Economy), Hürriyet Publications, 2001 (edited with Ercan Kumcu).

500 Years of Prices and Wages in Istanbul and Other Cities, State Institute of Statistics, Ankara, 218 pp., 2001, (published in Turkish and English).

Data and Statistics in the Ottoman Empire, State Institute of Statistics, Ankara, January, 2001, 179 pp.; selected papers co-edited with Professor Halil Inalcik of Bilkent University.

Ottoman Foreign Trade in the 19th Century, Historical Statistics Series, Vol. 1 , State Institute of Statistics, Ankara, 1995, pp. xvii + 112. (published in Turkish and English).

The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism 1820-1913: Trade, Investment and Production, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 1987, 278 pp.

The above volume has been published in Turkish as Osmanlı Ekonomisinde Bağımlılık ve Büyüme, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, Istanbul, 1984; 2nd Edition: 1994.

An Economic History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1914, (in Turkish), Istanbul, First Edition, 1988, Second Edition, 1991; Fifth Printing, 1999, 207 pp.; Third Edition, K Yayinlari, 2003, 314 pp. Fourth Edition and Ninth Printing, Iletişim Yayınları, 2005-2007, 242 pp.


Selected Articles in English:

"Changes in factor markets in the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1800", Continuity and Change, No. 24, 2009, pp. 1-30.

"Sources of long-term economic growth for Turkey, 1880–2005", European Review of Economic History, No. 12, 2008,pp. 393-430. (with Semra Altug and Alpay Filiztekin)

“Globalization, Industrialization and Changing Politics in Turkey”, New Perspectives on Turkey, No. 38, 2008, pp. 267-73.

“From Bimetallism to the ‘Limping Gold Standard’: The Ottoman Monetary System in the Nineteenth Century, Philip L. Cottrell (ed.), East Meets West- Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire, Ashgate Publishing, 2008, pp. 11-24.

“Economic Change in Twentieth Century Turkey: Is the Glass More than Half Full?” in R. Kasaba (ed.), Cambridge History of Modern Turkey, 2008, pp. 266-300.

“Agriculture and Economic Development in Turkey, 1870-2000” in P. Lains and V. Pinilla (eds.), Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe since 1870, Routledge Publishers 2008, pp. 375-96.

"The Black Death and the 'Great Divergence' across Europe, 1300-1600", European Review of Economic History, Vol 11, No. 3, December 2007.

“Akçe”, Encylopedia of Islam, Third Edition, Vol. 1, 2007, pp. 91-92.

“From Debasement to External Borrowing: Changing forms of deficit finance in the Ottoman Empire, 1750-1914” in Ş. Pamuk and Roumen Avramov (eds.), Monetary and Fiscal Policies in South-East Europe, Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Conference Proceedings jointly edited with Roumen Avramov, Bulgarian National Bank, Sofia, 2006, pp. 7-22.

"Did European Commodity Prices Converge during 1500-1800?" in T. J. Hatton, K. O’Rourke and A. Taylor (eds.), The New Economic History, Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Williamson, The MIT Press, 2006 (with Suleyman Ozmucur).

"Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820," The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 66, 2006, pp. 809-28.

"Urban Real Wages around the Eastern Mediterranean in Comparative Perspective, 1100-2000", Research in Economic History, Vol. 23, Elsevier, 2005, pp. 213-32.

"The Ottoman Economy in World War I", Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison (eds.), The Economics of World War I, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 112-36.

“Institutional Change and the Longevity of the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1800”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 35, 2004, pp. 225-47.

“The Evolution of Ottoman Financial Institutions, 1600-1914”, Financial History Review, Vol. 11, 2004.

“Prices in the Ottoman Empire, 1469-1914”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 36, 2004, pp. 451-68.

Entries in Joel Mokyr (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, 2003 :

-“Modern Turkey since 1920” and Pre-Modern Turkey to 1920”,
-“Ottoman Empire”,
-“Prices”.

“The Ottoman Monetary System and Frontier Territories in Europe, 1500-1700”, International Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol. 9, 2003, pp. 175-82.

"Crisis and Recovery: the Ottoman Monetary System in the Early Modern Era, 1550-1789", in Dennis O. Flynn, Michel Morineau and Richard Von Glahn (eds.), Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470-1800, Ashgate Publishing, 2003, 133-48.

“Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914”, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 62, 2002, pp. 292-321 (with Suleyman Ozmucur).

“The Great Ottoman Debasement, 1808-1844: A Political Economy Framework” in Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem and Ursula Woköck (eds.), Histories of the Modern Middle East, New Directions, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002, pp. 21-36.

“Interaction between the Monetary Regimes of Istanbul, Cairo and Tunis, 1700-1875”, in Nelly Hanna (ed.), Money, Land and Trade, An Economic History of the Muslim Middle East, I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002, pp. 177-205.

"The Price Revolution in the Ottoman Empire Reconsidered", International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 33, 2001, pp. 69-89.

“The Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century”, Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas History, Vol. 24, 2000, pp. 104-116.


"Intervention during the Great Depression, Another Look at Turkish Experience", in S. Pamuk and Jeffrey Williamson (eds.), The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1850, Routledge Press, London and New York, 2000, pp. 321-339.

“The Recovery of the Ottoman Monetary System in the Eighteenth Century”, Kemal Karpat (ed.), Ottoman Past and Today’s Turkey, Brill Publishers, Leiden, 2000, pp. 188-211.

"Ottoman Interventionism in Economic and Monetary Affairs", Revue D'Histoire Maghrebine, 25/91-92, 1998, pp. 361-67.


"In the Absence of Domestic Currency : Debased European Coinage in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire", The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 57, 1997, pp. 345-66.


"Money in the Ottoman Empire, 1326-1914" , in Halil Inalcik and Donald Quataert (eds.), An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 947-985.

"Long Term Trends in Urban Wages in Turkey, 1850-1990", in P. Schollier and V. Zamagni (eds.), Labour's Reward: Real Wages in 19th and 20th Century Europe, Eward Elgar, London, 1995, pp. 105-122.

"The Disintegration of the Ottoman Monetary System during the Seventeenth Century", Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 2, 1994, pp. 67-81 ; reprinted in Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giralez (eds.), Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy, Vol. 14 of An Expanding World, The European Impact on World History, 1450-1800, Variorum Publishers, 1997, pp. 317-332.

"Anatolia and Egypt During the Nineteenth Century : A Comparison of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment", New Perspectives on Turkey, No.7, 1992, pp. 37-56.


"War, State Economic Policies and Resistance by Agricultural Producers in Turkey, 1939-1945" in John Waterbury and Farhad Kazemi (eds.), Peasant Politics in the Modern Middle East , University Presses of Florida, 1991, pp.125-42; an earlier version was published with the same title in New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1888, pp. 19-36.

"The Middle East in Nineteenth Century World Trade", in Haleh Esfandiari and A.L. Udovitch (eds.), The Economic Dimensions of Middle Eastern History, Essays in Honor of Charles Issawi , The Darwin Press, Princeton, N.J., 1990, pp. 199-214.


"The Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective", Review (Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY-Binghamton), Vol.11 , No. 3, Spring 1988, pp. 127-49.

"Commodity Production for Export and Relations of Production in Ottoman Agriculture, 1840-1913", in Huri Islamoglu-Inan (ed.), The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp. 178-202.

"The Decline and Resistance of Ottoman Cotton Textiles, 1820-1913", Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 23, 1986, pp. 205-25.

"Ottoman Wages and the World Economy, 1839-1913", Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1985, pp. 379-406 (jointly with Korkut Boratav and Gunduz Okçun).

"The Ottoman Empire in the 'Great Depression' of 1873-1896", The Journal of Economic History , Vol. 44, 1984, pp. 107-118.