Güven Sak, PhD
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The young people are here; where are the workers?
Polls reveal that 86% of American workers agree with the protestors. “And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First, they ignore you.…
We cannot manufacture domestic automobiles with this judicial system.
A country cannot make high value-added production if conflicts about intellectual property rights cannot be solved easily in the judicial system. Lately, the world has…
Egypt needs its Özal
There is disillusionment with the pace of change in Egypt. Take the 1958 emergency law, which former president Hosni Mubarak limited to the regulation of narcotics and…
I missed the red signal of my BB
My BlackBerry (BB) has not been working for the last couple of days. There has been a service failure for BBs throughout the world. I cannot read my e-mails and messages…
A country which cannot go beyond producing iPad cases cannot manufacture automobiles.
A country that has not decided what to do in the field of intellectual property rights cannot improve its domestic value added. Nowadays we have become obsessed with the…
Mubarak as initiator of Arab Spring
Hosni Mubarak is on trial. His country is in transition, and the youth of Tahrir Square is lost in disillusionment. I have been looking at the photos of Mubarak facing…
What distinguished Steve Jobs?
An entrepreneur is like a sculptor who sees the shape in the stone block before he begins. Apple saw the Macintosh in Xerox Alto. This is what distinguished Steve Jobs.…
“Help the rich, have mercy on them”
More than a century ago, Karl Marx said that socialism primarily is a reality of developed countries. Something odd is happening in the US. The fire of rebellion that…
Ramallah to Bethlehem, how long?
Palestine could be the first Arab country to industrialize. The potential is there. Regarding capabilities, other than the skilled labor force, Israeli infrastructure is…
A country that gives credit to banditry cannot improve its value added
Turkey cannot improve its domestic value added unless solid applicable steps are taken about intellectual property rights. What is the similarity between Turkey and…
Europe’s solution is Turkey’s problem
The recapitalization of banks in Europe will sharpen the competition over the temporary savings surplus and increase the cost of these resources for Turkey. Europe needs…
Does Turkey accept refugees from Somalia now?
Not that I know of. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was in New York yesterday, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly. He described the poverty he saw in Somalia and…