Coşkun Can Aktan
Coşkun Can Aktan is an economist and a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, Turkey. He is also founder and honorary chairman of the Social Sciences Research Society. 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.
Professor Aktan is now leading the Center for Law and Economics founded by himself.Academic career
Coskun Can Aktan is currently a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Dokuz Eylul University. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Dokuz Eylul University. He began teaching at the Dokuz Eylul University in 1986 and was promoted to full professorship in 1992.
He worked at several international research centers and universities including the Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, United States; Economics Department of the University of California ; International Social Sciences Institute of the University of Edinburgh; Institut für Allgemeine für Wirtschaftsforschung of the University of Freiburg ; University of Vrije, Belgium and Mount Kenya University, Kenya 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, Turkish Sciences Academy, George Mason University Foundation, Earhart Foundation, Soros Foundation, British Council, German Academic Exchange Service , Friedrich-Naumann Foundation, Japan Foundation etc.
He was a consultant to the Telecommunications Authority, a regulatory body in Turkey. He also served as an "Advisor to Health Minister" and contributed to the “Turkish Health Care Transition Program”.
He is currently chairman of the Social Sciences Research Society, a non-governmental organization in Turkey.Fields
/public choice /rules and institutions /constitutional economics / political economy / political ethics and political corruption /Scholarship/fellowship
