Associate Professor of Macroeconomics since February 2022 (Inter-University Council, The Republic of Turkey)
Associate Professor of Economics since July 2023 (Hacettepe University)

Research. growth, development, history, demography, evolution, social policy, food & agriculture
Teaching. mathematical econ, general equilibrium, growth & development

Education

PhD Economics 2011. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA Economics 2005. Ankara University
BSc Economics 2003. Hacettepe University

Selected Work

• Technology and Survival in Preindustrial England: A Malthusian View, Journal of Population Economics, 2023 [online first]

• Latent Social Distancing: Identification, Causes and Consequences (with Ayça Tekin-Koru), Economic Systems, 46(1), 100944, 2022

• Growth, Distribution and Dynamic Inefficiency in Turkey: An Analysis of the Naïve Neoclassical Theory of Capital, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 59, 20-30, 2021

• Productivity Growth, Malthus Delusion, and Unified Growth Theory, Economics Bulletin, 40(2), 1112-1121, 2020

• Long-Run Economic Growth in Turkey: Sources, Pitfalls, and Prospects, In: A. Akkoyunlu-Wigley, & S. Çağatay (Eds.) The Dynamics of Growth in Emerging Economies: The Case of Turkey (pp. 15-47). Routledge. 2019

• Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution, Economics, 9(1), 20150003, 2015