The impacts of the great depression on the safety development in civil aviation: Business cycles approach

Year 2025, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 56 - 66, 30.06.2025

Olcay Ölçen

https://doi.org/10.55212/ijaa.1588279

Abstract

Economics has realised significant advancements with criticisms from Marxist and Neo-Marxist thinkers. One of these criticisms pertains to business cycles and waves. This analysis focuses on the development of aviation safety in light of these waves and cycles. Simultaneously, the primary research method involves a systematic articulation of economic waves and their impacts on the understanding of safety in civil aviation. Thus, this research encompasses three patterns: civil aviation safety, economic conjunctures and wave theory, and a historical approach. This study aims to explain how the Great Depression Safety Wave formed between the periods of the First and Second World Wars. The findings indicate that there was a marked increase in the understanding of safety during the First and Second World Wars. Conversely, due to the Great Depression and its ramifications beyond the economic realm, there emerged a wave between the First World War and the Second World War, impacting historical evolution and the trajectory of safety throughout history.

Keywords

Aviation Safety , Business cycles , Historical Development , Civil Aviation

Büyük buhranın sivil havacılıkta emniyet gelişimine etkileri: İş döngüleri yaklaşımı

Abstract

İktisat, Marksist ve Neo-Marksist düşünürlerin eleştirileriyle büyük sıçramalar gerçekleştirdi. Bu eleştirilerden biri de iş çevrimleri ve dalgalarıdır. Bu analizde, bu dalgalar ve çevrimler dikkate alınarak havacılık emniyetinin gelişimine yoğunlaşılmıştır. Buna paralel olarak, ana araştırma yöntemi ekonomik dalgaların ve sivil havacılıkta emniyet anlayışına etkilerinin sistematik bir şekilde eklemlenmesidir. Bu şekilde, bu araştırmanın üç deseni vardır: Bunlar, sivil havacılık emniyeti, ekonomik konjonktürler ve dalgalar teorisi ve tarihsel yaklaşımıdır. Bu araştırma, Büyük Buhran Emniyet Dalgasının, Birinci Dünya Savaşı ile İkinci Dünya Savaşı Dönemleri arasında nasıl oluştuğunu açıklamayı amaçlamaktadır. Bulgular, Birinci ve İkinci Dünya Savaşlarında, emniyet anlayışında, keskin bir artış olduğunu doğrulamaktadır. Öte yandan, Büyük Buhran ve bunun ekonomik alanın ötesindeki etkileri nedeniyle, dünyada tarihsel evrim ve tarihteki emniyet seyri dışında Birinci Dünya Savaşı ile İkinci Dünya Savaşı arasında bir dalga yaşanacaktır.

Keywords

Havacılık Emniyeti , İş Dalgaları , Tarihsel Gelişim , Sivil Havacılık

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