Research Interests 

Neo-institutionalism, cooperativism, community economic development, pluralistic economics, political macroeconomics, public choice theory.

Book Chapters

"Cooperative Rationale in Banking: Evidence from North American Finance" in Cooperativism around the World: Opportunities and Challenges, edited by Bülent Temel, 215-284. New York City, NY: Cambridge Institute Publications, 2017. 

"The Great Recession (2007-2009) and an Alternative Institutionalist Approach to Financial Crises: Organizational Rationale" in Cooperativism around the World: Opportunities and Challenges, edited by Bülent Temel, 139-214. New York City, NY: Cambridge Institute Publications, 2017. 

 “Cooperative Rationale in Context: Conditions and Performance in the Case of Turkey” in Cooperatives in Context: Two Countries, Two Outcomes, edited by Bülent Temel, 55-147. Austin, TX: Cambridge Institute Publications, 2016. 

“Candidacy versus Membership: Is Turkey the Greatest Beneficiary of the EU?” In The Great Catalyst: European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey, edited by Bülent Temel, 339-385. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. 

“Regularizing the Unregulated? European Union’s Role in the Undocumented Immigration Problem in Greece” (with Christina Akrivopoulou). In The Great Catalyst: European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey, edited by Bülent Temel, 135-153. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

“Effects of Economic and Monetary Union on the Greek Political System: Dimensions of the Current Crisis” (with Christoforos Vernardakis). In The Great Catalyst: European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey, edited by Bülent Temel, 83-94. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. 

“Introduction.” In The Great Catalyst: European Union Project and Lessons from Greece and Turkey, edited by Bülent Temel, 1-8. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. 

“European Union and Turkey: Transformation of State-Society Relationship” (with Bahar Hurmi). In Societal Peace and Ideal Citizenship for Turkey, edited by Rasim Dönmez and Pınar Enneli,  207-226. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 

Journal Articles

“Workers' Rights in Turkish Law” (with Ali Temel). International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies 2, no.3 (2014): 248-72.  

“Workers' Rights and Employment Contracts in a Developing Country Context: The Case of Turkey” (with Ali Temel). International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies 2, no.1 (2014): 65-83. 

“Co-operative Organizations and Institutional Stability: Evidence from the Canadian Financial Sector.” Review of International Co-operation (2013): 48-66. 

“Divided We Stand: A Game Theoretic Analysis of the Semi-Centennial Cyprus Dispute.” Journal of Cyprus Studies 17, no.40 (2013): 1-14. Link

“Self-determination vs. Territorial Integrity: Ottoman-Armenian Conflict of 1915 from Two Perspectives of Statehood.” Review of Armenian Studies no. 26 (2012): 173-189. 

Book Reviews

“The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics.” Journal of Sports Economics 15 (December 2014): 650-653. 

“Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.” Acta Oeconomica 64, no.3 (September 2014): 392-396. 

“The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas.” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 21, no. 3 (2014): 541-544. 

“The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique.” Journal of Economics/Ekonomický Casopis 62, no.6 (2014): 661-664. 

“Unemployment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policies.” Journal of Economics and Statistics 234, no. 4 (2014): 527-528. 

“The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off.” Journal of Economic Geography 14 (2014): 477-8. 

“The Regimes of European Integration: Constructing Governance of the Single Market.” Journal of Economics/Ekonomický Casopis 61, no. 10 (2013): 1087-1089. 

Conference Proceeding

“Ethics vs. Morality: Political Economics of Education.” Proceedings of the Management, Knowledge and Learning International Conference 2014 (Portorož, Slovenia, disser25-27 June 2014), ISSN 2232-3309, June 2014, 1479 pp. 

Translated Article

“Sosyal Ekonomi ve Toplumsal Sorumluluk: Küresel Neoliberalizm Anarşisine Alternatifler” Atilim Journal of Social Sciences 2, no. 2 (2012): 107-122. Orig. title: Golob, Urša; Klement Podnar and Marko Lah. "Social economy and social responsibility: alternatives to global anarchy of neoliberalism?" International Journal of Social Economics 36, no. 5 (2009): 626-640. 

Discussion Paper

“From Value to Power: The Rise of Oil as a Political Economic Commodity,” Turkish Economic Association Discussion Paper No. 2012/52, 2012. Link

"Philosophy vs. Political Economy: The Case of a Porn Thesis in a Turkish University," Atilim University Discussion Paper No. 1202 March, 2012. Link

Periodicals

"New Texas Stock Exchange could bring prosperity to the state's economy" San Antonio Express News, October 24, 2024. Link

"Eclipsenomics: April’s solar eclipse will be the most profitable 22 minutes in Texas history" San Antonio Express News, March 17, 2024. Link

“Çifte Hareket: AB’nin Düşüşü ve Türkiye için Artan Önemi” [Double Movement: The EU’s Demise and Increasing Value for Turkey], Cumhuriyet, January 18, 2013. Link

“Unexpected Externality: European Union and Candidacy.” World Economics Association Newsletter 2: 6, 2012. Link

“Neoliberalizmin Kapitalist Zihniyetle Uyumsuzluğu: 2007 Büyük Durgunluğu” [Incompatibility of Neoliberalism with Capitalist Rationality: 2007 Great Recession]. İktisat ve Toplum [Economics and Society] 23, 2012. Link

“Yedekte Oturan İktisatçı: John K. Galbraith” [The Economist in the Bench: John K. Galbraith], Cumhuriyet, November 16, 2012. Link

“Çağdaş bir Kalkınma Modeli: Küreselleşerek Yerelleşme” [A Modern Model of Development: Localization by Globalization], Cumhuriyet, September 28, 2012. Link

“İlkel Bir Toplumdan Medeniyet Dersleri: Amişler.” [Civility Lessons from a Primitive Society: The Amish] Cumhuriyet, June 28, 2012. Link

“İşbirlikçi İnsan (Homo Cooperatus).” [Cooperative Man (Homo Cooperatus)] Cumhuriyet, May 4, 2012. Link

Conference Presentations

. “Homo Contextus as a Model of Rationality: Empirical Insights from Amish Life,” presented at ICAPE/International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (San Antonio, TX), 4 January 2024.  

“Ethics vs. Morality: Political Economics of Education," presented at MakeLearn International Conference: Human Capital without Borders (Portorož, Slovenia), 25-27 June 2014.

“The Idea of a Cooperatives’ University,” presented at the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)/TURKKOOP Workshop on Cooperatives Education (Ankara, Turkey), 25 April 2014.

“Commercial Banks vs. Credit Unions on Macroeconomic Stability: A Proposal for an Institutional Risk Index in the Financial Sector,” presented at International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Global Research Conference (Nicosia, Cyprus), 12-15 June 2013.

“Political Economics of Informal Sector: Findings and Proposals out of Turkish Experience,” presented at the 9th Eurasia Business and Economics Society conference (Rome, Italy), 11-13 January 2013.

“Development Strategies in the 21st Century,” College of Logistics (Přerov, Czech Republic), 17-21 December 2012.

“International Cooperation in Higher Education” (Ventspils, Latvia), 17-21 September 2012.

Op-eds

“Is Supreme Court’s Dobbs Ruling an Unintended Win for Abortion?” Fair Observer, December 12, 2022. Link 

“America’s Forgotten Economics: Social Democracy.” Fair Observer, March 7, 2013. Link