This book is about economic growth and development through a new way of analysis. It is a research that explains many phenomena seen in the growth process such as productivity, economic stagnation, under-investment, ineffectiveness of foreign aid, wage trends, factor flows and concentrations, technology adoption, and convergence by “relational analysis”.

Relational analysis is a general alternative analysis that focuses on the relationships between factors and uses their vital consequences to extract knowledge rather than ignore them artificially and fatally. It emphasizes that there are important interrelationships between factors such as complementarity, substitution, embodiment, directing, input-output, and facilitation. Taking into account the relations enable to get more complete and accurate answers to important questions, especially in applied works that require real predictions such as forecasting and policy formulation. The analysis can be fruitfully applied in any field, and as the growth analysis shows it fundamentally enriches the ideas, and protect from misleading assumptions.

In the book the readers will find:

– Origins and alternative definitions of complementarity and substitutions,

– Eleven implications of these relationships for economic growth and development,

– Many explanations and references for inferences regarding growth accounting, poverty traps and thresholds, multiple eqilibria, obsolescence, financial development, growth accelerations, imitations and barriers, and empirical anaysis.

The book is for anyone looking for an alternative way to learn about the basics of the growth process. Researchers, students, and staffs at universities and research institutions and other social scientists in government, business, international organizations should greatly benefit from reading the book.

Intense competition, fast changing technology, increased and diverse customer demand, and fast and reliable services and goods delivery expectations have reduced the profit margins for products. To be able to obtain a sustainable economic success, companies search for ways to offer the existing products via innovative ways. Revenue management is a tool that helps firms in this purpose. On the other hand, to match and even exceed customer anticipations, firms need to understand customer preferences and offer products accordingly. Customers can now reach wide range of competitor products due to online services. Hence it became much more important to apprehend and integrate customer choices into decision support tools. At this point, choice models are used to mathematically understand the customer choice preferences among a set of presented alternatives. This book combines revenue management and choice models to present a methodology to understand customer choices and integrate these to revenue management methods to be able to offer the best set of products to the customers. Also real life applications for hotels have been presented for different methods that are discussed and also proposed in this book with respective algorithms. When combined with decision support tools, concepts presented in this book offers a significant revenue increase for companies.

Önsözden

Tüm bu çalışmalarımda gözlemlediğim ilk konu, teknolojik gelişmeler ve müşteri ihtiyaçları nedeni ile nakit yönetimi dünyasının hep dinamik olduğudur. İkinci konu ise, finansal okuryazarlık konusunda özellikle küçük işletmelere ve hane halkına yönelik çok fazla çalışma yapılması gerekliliğidir. Türkiye özelinde sermaye piyasalarının gelişimi adına, işletmelerin büyümesi ve sürdürülebilirliği adına nakit yönetiminin finansal yönetimin altındaki en önemli başlık olduğu kanaatindeyim. Borsa İstanbul’un toplam piyasa değerinin Facebook’un piyasa değerinden düşük olmasının nedeni Türkiye’deki işletmelerin, bankacılık sistemi dâhil, ölçeğinin küçük kalmasıdır. Bunun nedeni ise, başta KOBİ’lerde finansal yönetim ve nakit yönetimi esaslarına olan hâkimiyetin düşüklüğüdür. Uluslarararası bir finans merkezi olmak isteyen İstanbul’un Avusturya İktisat Okulu, Wharton, Harvard Business School, London School of Economics gibi bir iktisadi yönetim ekolü (doktrini, okulu) olması gerekliliğine inancım doğrultusunda, bu ilk kitabımda deneyimlerimden hareketle nakit yönetiminin önemini aktarmaya çalıştım

During the 19th century, British diplomacy towards the Ottoman Empire was based on rejuvenating and revitalising the administration system with a series of social and political reforms. Although British attitudes began to transform during the Near Eastern Crisis of 1876-8 and the Anglo-Ottoman alliance was interrupted, the policy changed dramatically on the eve of the First World War.Nonetheless, major events such as the Chanak Crisis in the British Cabinet, the occupation of Constantinople and Smyrna and finally the Turkish Nationalist Movementunder the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk effected the dynamics of Anglo-Ottoman relations. This book examines the ground of these policies and analyses how thisstorm was over in British foreign policies towards Turkey between 1918 and 1923.