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 and Institut für Allgemeine für Wirtschaftsforschung of the University of Freiburg (Germany) 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 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 Law & Economics (Turkish) http://www.hukukiktisatforumu.net

The Annual Meeting on Business, Management and Economics (Turkish) http://www.yebko.net

Besides his academic career, Prof. Can Aktan is a really pioneer for many social responsibility projects and may deserve being called as "social entrepreneur."

Social responsibility projects initiated by Can Aktan http://www.sobiad.org/KSS/kss.html

Printed works

For more detailed list of publications, please see: http://www.canaktan.net/canaktan_personal/aktanpersonal.htm

External links

• C.C.Aktan official web
• C.C.Aktan Personal Home Page

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Name	Aktan, Coskun Can
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Date of birth	1963
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