Umit Akcay
@umitak.bsky.social
Political economy of development & growth models | Dependent financialization and central banking | Political economy of new authoritarianisms | Turkey | @ipeberlin.bsky.social | https://www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute/members/uemit-akcay/
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Umit Akcay
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I'll be sharing brief posts on current international political economy, offering a critical political economy viewpoint:
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I'll be sharing brief posts on current international political economy, offering a critical political economy viewpoint:
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My brief take on Trump’s first year and the power bloc shaping Trumpism:
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The Trump Administration in its First Year: New Class Alliances and the Alternatives
Behind the noisy politics, Trumpism is not madness but a class strategy born from the crisis of American capitalism.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My brief take on Trump’s first year and the power bloc shaping Trumpism:
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if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back…. @katemac.bsky.social
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
if you came of age in the 20th century then this really sits you down about how much the Worlds changed in 21st century. no going back…. @katemac.bsky.social
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Germany was 4 times China's GDP in 1990
China is now 4 times Germany's GDP in 2025
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
My brief take on Trump’s first year and the power bloc shaping Trumpism:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
The Trump Administration in its First Year: New Class Alliances and the Alternatives
Behind the noisy politics, Trumpism is not madness but a class strategy born from the crisis of American capitalism.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My brief take on Trump’s first year and the power bloc shaping Trumpism:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
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Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
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Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
Between the technocrats of Wall Street and the populists like Trump, the left must reclaim central banking as a site of democratic struggle.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
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On the New York elections and Mamdani’s win: Both left and right can use the cycle of marketization and counter-movements (Polanyi). What matters is turning this energy into a lasting political strategy.
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
On the New York elections and Mamdani’s win: Both left and right can use the cycle of marketization and counter-movements (Polanyi). What matters is turning this energy into a lasting political strategy.
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Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
Between the technocrats of Wall Street and the populists like Trump, the left must reclaim central banking as a site of democratic struggle.
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Between the technocrats of Wall Street and the populists like Trump, the left must reclaim central banking as a site of democratic struggle.
By
@umitak.bsky.social
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Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
Between the technocrats of Wall Street and the populists like Trump, the left must reclaim central banking as a site of democratic struggle.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
Between the technocrats of Wall Street and the populists like Trump, the left must reclaim central banking as a site of democratic struggle.
By
@umitak.bsky.social
substack.com/app-link/pos...
Between the technocrats of Wall Street and the populists like Trump, the left must reclaim central banking as a site of democratic struggle.
By
@umitak.bsky.social
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"..independence entrenches capitalist power, while authoritarian control concentrates it. Both depoliticization and personalism depoliticize society itself, denying collective decision-making about the economy. The challenge is to chart a third path: democratic control without executive domination."
Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
Between the technocrats of Wall Street and the populists like Trump, the left must reclaim central banking as a site of democratic struggle.
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"..independence entrenches capitalist power, while authoritarian control concentrates it. Both depoliticization and personalism depoliticize society itself, denying collective decision-making about the economy. The challenge is to chart a third path: democratic control without executive domination."
Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
Between the technocrats of Wall Street and the populists like Trump, the left must reclaim central banking as a site of democratic struggle.
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Between Wall Street and Trump: The Left’s Central Bank Dilemma
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
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Last week at the EAEPE conference, I presented a co-authored paper on Argentina’s and Turkey’s responses to the 2018 currency crises and their class dynamics. The timing coincided with Milei’s U.S. visit and new support package. Here’s a short blogpost on this:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
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Argentina in Crisis Mode Again
U.S. bailout buys Milei time, but shock therapy deepens poverty. Like Turkey, dependent financialization offers no exit, only a pause before the next crash.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Last week at the EAEPE conference, I presented a co-authored paper on Argentina’s and Turkey’s responses to the 2018 currency crises and their class dynamics. The timing coincided with Milei’s U.S. visit and new support package. Here’s a short blogpost on this:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
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For a concise summary of policy shifts and their broader implications in Turkey and Argentina, see the blog post below 👇 "Looking into Argentina’s mirror, Turkey and the wider Global South can see their own reflection."
Last week at the EAEPE conference, I presented a co-authored paper on Argentina’s and Turkey’s responses to the 2018 currency crises and their class dynamics. The timing coincided with Milei’s U.S. visit and new support package. Here’s a short blogpost on this:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
Argentina in Crisis Mode Again
U.S. bailout buys Milei time, but shock therapy deepens poverty. Like Turkey, dependent financialization offers no exit, only a pause before the next crash.
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
For a concise summary of policy shifts and their broader implications in Turkey and Argentina, see the blog post below 👇 "Looking into Argentina’s mirror, Turkey and the wider Global South can see their own reflection."
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"Both Argentina and Turkey show how class coalitions can briefly expand policy space, but without structural transformation these tactical gains evaporate. In both cases, dependency on volatile capital flows... has forced governments back into orthodoxy and deeper external subordination."
Last week at the EAEPE conference, I presented a co-authored paper on Argentina’s and Turkey’s responses to the 2018 currency crises and their class dynamics. The timing coincided with Milei’s U.S. visit and new support package. Here’s a short blogpost on this:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
Argentina in Crisis Mode Again
U.S. bailout buys Milei time, but shock therapy deepens poverty. Like Turkey, dependent financialization offers no exit, only a pause before the next crash.
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Both Argentina and Turkey show how class coalitions can briefly expand policy space, but without structural transformation these tactical gains evaporate. In both cases, dependency on volatile capital flows... has forced governments back into orthodoxy and deeper external subordination."
Last week at the EAEPE conference, I presented a co-authored paper on Argentina’s and Turkey’s responses to the 2018 currency crises and their class dynamics. The timing coincided with Milei’s U.S. visit and new support package. Here’s a short blogpost on this:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
Argentina in Crisis Mode Again
U.S. bailout buys Milei time, but shock therapy deepens poverty. Like Turkey, dependent financialization offers no exit, only a pause before the next crash.
open.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Last week at the EAEPE conference, I presented a co-authored paper on Argentina’s and Turkey’s responses to the 2018 currency crises and their class dynamics. The timing coincided with Milei’s U.S. visit and new support package. Here’s a short blogpost on this:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
My brief notes on the Turkey’s peace process with Kurds:
Turkey's Peace Process with Kurds: Are We at a Turning Point?
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Turkey's Peace Process with Kurds: Are We at a Turning Point?
The "peace process" is a top-down power play, but its outcome is far from decided, as it is no one-sided game; the Kurdish movement and the broader opposition hold significant power to shape the peace
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August 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My brief notes on the Turkey’s peace process with Kurds:
Turkey's Peace Process with Kurds: Are We at a Turning Point?
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
Turkey's Peace Process with Kurds: Are We at a Turning Point?
The "peace process" is a top-down power play, but its outcome is far from decided, as it is no one-sided game; the Kurdish movement and the broader opposition hold significant power to shape the peace
open.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Turkey's Peace Process with Kurds: Are We at a Turning Point?
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What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025
In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...
newleftreview.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
I discussed three emerging dynamics in the global economy: slowdown, militarization, and geopolitical tensions in my recent piece, referencing discussions from the NATO summit and a recent World Bank report:
June 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I discussed three emerging dynamics in the global economy: slowdown, militarization, and geopolitical tensions in my recent piece, referencing discussions from the NATO summit and a recent World Bank report:
The strike in an opposition-led municipality (İzmir) revealed how inadequate it is to define democracy and authoritarianism purely through legal-procedural terms. Some brief thoughts on the CHP’s strategy:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
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Democracy Without Labor? The CHP’s Dilemma in Türkiye’s Democratic Renewal
A democratization agenda that doesn’t center labor will never be strong enough to dismantle authoritarianism’s social foundations.
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June 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The strike in an opposition-led municipality (İzmir) revealed how inadequate it is to define democracy and authoritarianism purely through legal-procedural terms. Some brief thoughts on the CHP’s strategy:
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
It's actually a civil war within the American capitalist class.
The world's richest man vs. the president of the most powerful state. It looks like a sci-fi movie opening... but this is happening right now!
June 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It's actually a civil war within the American capitalist class.
The world's richest man vs. the president of the most powerful state. It looks like a sci-fi movie opening... but this is happening right now!
June 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The world's richest man vs. the president of the most powerful state. It looks like a sci-fi movie opening... but this is happening right now!
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English version
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Time Is Running Out for Türkiye’s Opposition
For Türkiye’s opposition, time is the one resource running out fastest.
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June 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
English version
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Excellent overview of the economic situation in Turkey. If it's worsening now, which coincides with an acceleration of repression against the CHP, in the medium term, it could be to the government's advantage -with interest rates falling and the inflation target met.
www.evrensel.net/yazi/97039/m...
www.evrensel.net/yazi/97039/m...
Muhalefetin zamanı daralıyor - Ümit Akçay - Evrensel
Geçtiğimiz hafta ekonomide iki kritik veri açıklandı, ekonomik büyüme ve işsizlik. Sonuçlar toplum için kötü, ekonomi yönetimi için iyi: Büyüme yavaşlıyor ve...
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June 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Excellent overview of the economic situation in Turkey. If it's worsening now, which coincides with an acceleration of repression against the CHP, in the medium term, it could be to the government's advantage -with interest rates falling and the inflation target met.
www.evrensel.net/yazi/97039/m...
www.evrensel.net/yazi/97039/m...
My take on why Türkiye’s opposition must consolidate its position now:
Time Is Running Out for Türkiye’s Opposition
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
Time Is Running Out for Türkiye’s Opposition
For Türkiye’s opposition, time is the one resource running out fastest.
open.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
My take on why Türkiye’s opposition must consolidate its position now:
Time Is Running Out for Türkiye’s Opposition
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
open.substack.com/pub/umitak/p...
Time Is Running Out for Türkiye’s Opposition
For Türkiye’s opposition, time is the one resource running out fastest.
open.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Time Is Running Out for Türkiye’s Opposition
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A brief update on Turkey:
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The Unintended Consequence of March 19 in Türkiye: A Window to Tame Inflation?
Once again, Türkiye’s ruling bloc has managed to turn crisis into control—this time, by using political turmoil to justify economic orthodoxy.
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May 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A brief update on Turkey:
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