Turkish Social Political Economy History in the Light of Dugger's Reconstructed Concepts of Veblenian Institutionalism

As part of his quest to bring radicalism back into institutionalism, William M. Dugger has not only corrected the revisions made in Veblen's original anarchist-socialist scheme after his death, but also produced a compelling social and political economy perspective that would conceive of capitalism as a mode of social provisioning run according to power and status, rather than price movements in the market. This paper attempts to contextualize Dugger's reconstruction of the Veblenian dichotomy and Veblen's radical institutionalism by focusing on the case of the politicization of engineers in Turkey in the 1960s and the 1970s.