Ayşe Buğra (born 1951) is a Turkish
social scientist
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, currently professor of
Political Economy
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at th
Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish Historyand the co-founder of th
of
Boğaziçi University
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in
Istanbul
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. She is a recipient of the
TWAS Prize
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Summary
Agricultural Sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Earth Sciences
Engineering Sciences
Mathematics
Medical Sc ...
for Social Sciences which she received in 2014.
After graduating from
Robert College
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of
Istanbul
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, she continued her education at
Boğaziçi University
Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait. It has six faculties and two ...
. With a PhD in Economics from
McGill University
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, Canada, Buğra has written on the
history
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and
methodology of economics,
development economics
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, and
comparative social policy. In addition to various publications in Turkish, English, and French, she is the translator into Turkish of ''
The Great Transformation'' by
Karl Polanyi
Karl Paul Polanyi (; hu, Polányi Károly ; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964),''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2003) vol 9. p. 554 was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist and politician, best known ...
(1986).
Selected works
*''New Capitalism in Turkey: The Relationship Between Politics, Religion and Business'' (with Osman Savaşkan,(2014).
*''Sınıftan Sınıfa'' (with Taylan Acar, Esin Ertürk, Özgür Burçak Gürsoy, Ebru Işıklı, Aysun Kıran and Sevecen Tunç, (2010).
*''Reading Karl Polanyi for the 21st Century: Market Economy as Political Project'' (co-edited with
Kaan Agartan, 2009).
*''Vatandaşlık Gelirine Doğru'' (co-edited with
Çağlar Keyder, 2007).
*''Sosyal Politika Yazıları'' (co-edited with
Çağlar Keyder, 2006).
*''Devlet-Piyasa Karşıtlığının Ötesinde: İhtiyaçlar ve Tüketim Üzerine Yazılar'' (Beyond the State-Market Dichotomy: Essays on Human Needs and Consumption, 2000).
*''Islam in Economic Organizations'' (1999).
*''State, Market, and Organizational Form'' (co-edited with
Behlül Üsdiken, 1997).
*''State and Business in Modern Turkey: A Comparative Study'' (1994).
*''İktisatçılar ve İnsanlar'' (On Economists and Human Behavior, 1989).
References
External links
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20th-century Turkish historians
Turkish women economists
Turkish women historians
Turkish women academics
Academic staff of Hacettepe University
Robert College alumni
Living people
McGill University alumni
TWAS laureates
Alumni of Arnavutköy American High School for Girls
21st-century Turkish historians
Turkish economists
1951 births
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