Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans

Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London, UK. He has worked at SOAS since 1991, and his main area of specialization is political economy of money and finance. He has published dozens of books and articles in several languages. He also writes frequently for the international press. His most recent books are Profiting Without Producing (2013), Marxist Monetary Theory (2016), and The Left Case Against the EU (2018). Pinar Cakiroglu is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Crete, Greece. She received her PhD in Economics in 2015 from SOAS, University of London, UK. Her main area of research is the political economy and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and Greece.

Ch. 1 The emergence of industrial capitalism in Ottoman Macedonia

Ch. 2 Analysing Ottoman capitalism: Theoretical and empirical resources

Ch. 3 Administrative mechanisms and population changes in the vilayet of Thessaloniki


Ch. 4 The straightjacket of çiftlik agriculture in Macedonia

Ch. 5 The commercial roots of Ottoman textile capitalism

Ch 6. Private industrial capitalism in Ottoman Macedonia

Ch. 7 The Ottoman state creates a framework for industrialisation

Ch. 8 Ascendant industrialists, emerging working class, turbulent communities

Ch. 9 Precarious capitalism