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The activities in an economy are carried out by the public and private department. Often goods of public benefit are produced by the public sector, while goods of private benefit are produced by the private sector. While the public sector is mainly emerging to meet the needs of public quality such as national defence, justice, education and health, it also produces goods and services that are subject to personal demand when necessary and fully meet the needs of special quality. What the public sector will produce and the share in the economy has been discussed from the past to the present day. On the role of the public sector in the economy, the Classic, Keynesian, and Neo-Classic economists have made different views. The economists who defend the classical view have argued that there is an invisible hand in the market and that if the government does not interfere with the markets, the economy will balance itself. But in 1929, it turned out that this view, which was suggested by the worldwide economic stagnation, unemployment and bankruptcy, was not true. After 1929, the intervening state policies, which were defended by Keynes, began to be implemented as a way to get out of the economic stagnation. With the implementation of the Keynesian policies, it lived the European Golden Age until the 1970s. In the 1970s, along with the worldwide oil crisis, Keynesian policies began to be criticized. In this period, neo-classic and supply-backed economists opposed the state’s interference in the market and defended the minimal state. The views of the reduction of the share of the state in the economy, backed by the neo-classic economists since 1980, have been reacted throughout the world and in Turkey, and rapidly public enterprises have begun to be privatized. The size of the public sector is a concept that explains how much the share of the public economy is in a national economy. The share of the public sector in the economy can be measured by the following methods. These methods are measured using the total public expenditure/GDP, total public income/GDP, total tax income/GDP, total population/total public employment and total public employment/total employment ratio. The aim of this study is to show the size of the public as producer by measuring the size of the public sector in Turkey by the method of Total Public Employment. In the study, the scan of literature and statistical data were measured by time and short analysis of the size of the public sector. As it is known, one of the most important opinions that the IMF borrowing to Turkey, the World Bank, organizations like, is the view that public employment in Turkey is high. However, the measurements we have done have found that the share of the public in the population and in the total employment is not as high as claimed and is quite low if compared to the EU member countries and the OECD.

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