Coşkun Can Aktan (born 1963) is a political economist and a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at

Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül University ( tr, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi) (DEÜ) is a university in İzmir, Turkey. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 15 faculties. DEU is the first university which applied the problem-based learning method in Turkey, ...

in İzmir, Turkey. He is founder and honorary chairman of the Social Sciences Research Society. Aktan is a leading expert on the

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of the Turkish

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, analyzing and writing on the movement of

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from a

statist In political science, statism is the doctrine that the political authority of the state is legitimate to some degree. This may include economic and social policy, especially in regard to taxation and the means of production. While in use since ...

to a market economy from its early days, making Aktan an early and internationally known source of information on Turkey's move toward a

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. Professor Aktan is now leading the Center for Law and Economics founded by himself.

Academic career

Coskun Can Aktan is currently a

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at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the

. He worked at several international research centers and universities including th
Center for Study of Public Choice
George Mason University, United States; Economics Department of the University of California (UCLA); International Social Sciences Institute of the University of Edinburgh; Institut für Allgemeine für Wirtschaftsforschung of the University of Freiburg (Germany); University of Vrije, Belgium and Mount Kenya University,

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as a visiting scholar. Aktan's research studies were funded by the fellowships and the grants of such organizations as Higher Education Institution of Turkey, Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Institution (TÜBİTAK), Turkish Sciences Academy (TÜBA), George Mason University Foundation (United States),

Earhart Foundation The Earhart Foundation was an American private charitable foundation that funded research and scholarship since its founding in 1929 by oil executive Harry Boyd Earhart. Richard Ware served as the Foundation's longtime president. History The Ph ...

(United States),

British Council The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh lan ...

(UK), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (Germany), Friedrich-Naumann Foundation (Germany), Japan Foundation (Japan) etc.

Fields

Public Finance Public finance is the study of the role of the government in the economy. It is the branch of economics that assesses the government revenue and government expenditure of the public authorities and the adjustment of one or the other to achiev ...

Public Economics Public economics ''(or economics of the public sector)'' is the study of government policy through the lens of economic efficiency and equity. Public economics builds on the theory of welfare economics and is ultimately used as a tool to improve s ...

Public Choice Public choice, or public choice theory, is "the use of economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science". Gordon Tullock, 9872008, "public choice," ''The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics''. . Its content includes the s ...

Constitutional Economics Constitutional economics is a research program in economics and constitutionalism that has been described as explaining the choice "of alternative sets of legal-institutional-constitutional rules that constrain the choices and activities of econo ...

/ Institutional Economics /

Political Economy Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...

Scholarship/fellowship

* Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant. ( Japan Economic Policy Association, JEPA) * Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA). (

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Franci ...

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Economics Department / visiting scholar. *

Friedrich Naumann Foundation The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (german: Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit) (''FNF''), is a German foundation for liberal politics, related to the Free Democratic Party. Established in 1958 by Theodor Heuss, the first pres ...

Fellowship. ( Albert Ludwigs University and Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg / Visiting Scholar. * DAAD ( Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Fellowship. ( Albert Ludwigs University and Walter Eucken Institute in Freiburg / visiting scholar. *

Fellowship. (International Social Science Institute, University of Edinburgh as an honorary visiting associate. *

Grant. (the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University. / visiting scholar) * Dissertation fellowship from Higher Education Board, Turkey as well as a supplementary fund from the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, United States. the Center for Study of Public Choice as a visiting graduate student.

Academic Performance

* Professor Coskun Can Aktan has an H index = 50, Total citations = 11,625, is the primary author for six papers with over 100 cites, and has been publishing since at least 1987 pe
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if necessary. * Professor Coskun Can Aktan has a Top Read Score (865,732) a
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External links

C. C. Aktan official web
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