Popular attitudes toward free markets in Turkey, Iran, former Soviet Union and the United States
Author
Özbaflı, Aygül
Advisor
Nader, Habibi
Date
1997Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
In order to find whether the major obstacles to the success of free markets are
“the attitudes, morals, and understandings of the people themselves, not just the
institutions or policies they live with,” Robert Shiller, Maxim Boycko, and Vladimir
Korobov (1991) conducted surveys of randomly selected individuals in the Soviet
Union and in the United States. The same study was repeated in Iran by Nader
Habibi (May 1995). The goal of this thesis is, using the same set of questions
that Shiller et al. (1991) used, to collect data on popular attitudes toward free
markets in Turkey and compare the results obtained from this survey analysis
with those in Iran, former Soviet Union and the United States.