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Non-Market Mechanisms of Market Formation: The Development of the Consumer Durables Industry in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Ayşe Buğra
Ayşe Buğra*
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Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics.
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This paper discusses the role played by the extensive, nation-wide network of sales agents organized by the leading Turkish manufacturer of consumer durables, Arçelik, in the formation of mass consumption markets in the post-Second World War era. The case study attempts to draw attention to a relatively less explored dimension of the industrialization experience of developing countries by shifting the usual emphasis on the structure of production toward the organization of consumption. This shift of emphasis serves to highlight certain society-specific mechanisms of market formation which compensate the limitations of the market-forming role of the state in the context of twentieth-century late industrialization.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 19 , fall 1998 , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1998

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