Coşkun Can Aktan
Coşkun Can Aktan (born 1963) is an economist and a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, Turkey. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Dokuz Eylul University and began teaching there in 1986, obtaining full professorship in 1996. Aktan is a leading expert on the privatization of the Turkish economy, analyzing and writing on the movement of Turkey from a statist to a market economy from its early days, making Aktan an early and internationally known source of information on Turkey's move toward a market-based economy.
He worked at several international research centers and universities including the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University; 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) and University of Vrije (Belgium) and Mount Kenya University (Kenya) as a visiting scholar.
Aktan is a prolific writer and a regular contributor to scholarly journals in Turkey. His research ranges across many fields within social sciences, and includes works on Political Economy and Public Choice.
Professor Aktan is founder and currently the President of the Social Sciences Research Society (http://www.sobiad.org)
He is the founder and currently the Chairman of several conferences:
International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS) http://www.icssconference.net
International Conference on eBusiness and eGovernment (ICEBEG) http://www.icebeg.net
International Conference on Economics and Finance (ICEF) http://www.icefconference.net
International Conference on Business and Management (ICBM) http://www.icbmconference.net
The Annual Meeting on Business, Management and Economics (Turkish) http://www.yebko.net
Printed works
For more detailed list of publications, please see: http://www.canaktan.net/
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