Özveren E.Kaya A.Y.Özgür M.E.2023-01-122023-01-122020112287921122-8792https://doi.org/10.19272/202006102008https://hdl.handle.net/11454/79828Smithian ideas penetrated into the Ottoman Empire through various channels and, depending on the channel, in several guises. Over an extended period of time, in about a century, this multi-layered yet complimentary process of dissemination continued creating a succession of several Ottoman Smiths. Sakizli Ohannes's work represented the best example of Ottoman Smithian economics. In contrast to Ohannes, Ahmet Midhat's work started off from a critique of then conventionalized Smithian economics. Smithian economics was useful for the Ottomans to adapt themselves passively as well as with a degree of moderate reformism, to the 'data' of the economic world in which they found themselves increasingly absorbed. © 2020 Fabrizio Serra Editore. All rights reserved.en10.19272/202006102008info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAdam SmithAhmet MidhatJean-Baptiste SayOttoman EmpireSakizli OhannesArticle2821571822-s2.0-85130141778Q3