Özet:

Sencer Divitçioğlu made contributions to the history of Turkish economic thought first as an economist, then as a historian and an anthropologist. However, although he has acquired different attributes throughout his academic career, his main starting point is economics. Because he applied analytical reasoning from economic theory to history and anthropology. He never abandoned the analytical reasoning he derived from economic theory, but applied them to history and anthropology, preserving the same logical-formal modeling from economics to history. This put a great deal of restraint on his thinking. Due to this restraint, there has not been a public intellectual who has exceeded the standard limits of economics. Meanwhile, this situation, which is recognized in the case of Divitçioğlu, is an example of the practice of methodological imperialism, which is characterized as the spread of mainstream economics to other social sciences after 1945.