Property, Geopolitics, and Eurocentrism: The “Great Divergence” and the Ottoman Empire
Eren Düzgün
The Ottoman Empire has thus far remained at the margin of “Great Divergence” debate. Relatedly, no systematic attempt been made to overcome Eurocentric views about early modern Empire. This paper seeks fill this gap by problematizing and re-historicizing arguably core concept Great Divergence debate, that is, capitalism. Drawing from theory social-property relations, reconsiders question origin capitalism, doing so, provides not only new comparative insights on Empire, but also preliminary outlines an alternative non-Eurocentric reading world historical development. JEL Classification: N40, P14, P16, P5, P47
Review of Radical Political Economics|RePEc: Research Papers in Economics