The Lessons to be taken from the European Union's Great Depression: "The Welfare State Policies and the Clustering of the RDI Related Economic Sectors" are indispensable for the long-term economic success

Bu makalede Avrupa Birliği'nin (AB) iktisadi geleceği analiz edilmekte, ve son dönemde AB'nin iktisadi sorunlarının ve yavaşlamasının, üye devletleri bağlayan 'ortak olarak tanımlanmış makro düzey ekonomik yönetişim parametreleri' eksikliğine bağlı olduğu, savunulmaktadır. Uzun yıllardır AB siyasa yapıcıları, AB'yi, sosyal devlet politikaları ile piyasaların dengelendiği bir model haline dönüştürme yerine, büyük ölçüde koordinasyonsuz bir tek pazarın bütünleşme için yeterli görüldüğü bir sağ liberal modele doğru dönüştürdüler. Ayrıca, iktisadi politikalar açısından da, endüstriyel-sektörel kümelenmenin önemi, özellikle Ar-Ge/İnovasyon kapasitesinin arttırılması bağlamında, oldukça hafife alındı. Sonuç olarak da, reel sektörün nispeten örgütsüzplansız durumu (gerek mal ve gerek hizmet üretiminde) AB'nin küresel rekabet gücünü oldukça azaltmıştır. Bu bağlamda, bu makale, AB bünyesindeki başarılı bir ekonomik yönetişim modelinin gelişimi için 'siyaset' kurumunun öneminin altını çizmekte, ve güçlü 'sosyal devlet politikaları' ile desteklenmiş, 'merkezi planlama ve kümelenme tabanlı' bir uluslar-üstü ekonomik modeli, önermektedir.

Avrupa Birliği'nin Büyük Buhranı'ndan alınacak dersler: "Sosyal Devlet Politikaları ve AR-GE/İnovasyon Bağlantılı İktisadi Sektörlerin Kümelenmesi" uzun vadeli iktisadi başarı için kaçınılmazdır

This paper focuses on the economic future of the European Union (EU) and argues that the EU's economic problems and its recent economic slowdown are consequences of the highly deficient 'commonly defined macro level economic governance parameters' that bind all the member-states today. Instead of balancing the markets with the welfare state policies, the EU policy makers have gradually transformed the EU to a purely right-wing project, where the greatly uncoordinated single market is considered as a sufficient base for integration. Also, with regards to economic policymaking, the importance of industrialsectoral clusters; particularly for improving RDI (Research & Development & Innovation) capacities; has been highly underestimated. As a result, the relatively unorganized status of the real sectors (both in the production of goods and services) has further decreased the EU's global competitiveness. In this context, following the underlining of 'politics' for successful economic governance, this paper offers a 'central planning-clustering based' supranational economic model for the EU, which still necessitates backing by strong 'welfare state policies'.

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