IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/jechis/v40y1980i03p533-550_08.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Price History and the Bursa Silk Industry: A Study in Ottoman Industrial Decline, 1550–1650

Author

Listed:
  • Cizakca, Murat

Abstract

The Ottoman Empire did not escape the “price revolution” of the “long” sixteenth century. As far as the Bursa silk industry was concerned, however, the rate of increase of relative prices was such as to result in a price “scissors.” This situation led to declining profits in the production of cloth, while profits in the production of the raw material were substantial. A transformation of Bursa's economy from cloth production to raw material production followed. It appears that this transformation conformed to a cyclical pattern in the following centuries, a pattern that was chiefly dictated by European economic might.

Suggested Citation

  • Cizakca, Murat, 1980. "Price History and the Bursa Silk Industry: A Study in Ottoman Industrial Decline, 1550–1650," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 40(3), pages 533-550, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:40:y:1980:i:03:p:533-550_08
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022050700085223/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Orhan Oguz & Ahmed Tabakoglu, 1991. "An Historical Approach to Islamic Pricing Policy: A Research on the Ottoman Price System and its Application منهج تاريخي لبحث سياسة سعرية إسلامية بحث في نظام الأسعار في الدولة العثمانية وتطبيقاته," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 3(1), pages 63-79, January.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:40:y:1980:i:03:p:533-550_08. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/jeh .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.