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About the Contributors

Ilkben Akansel, Dr., gained her Assoc. Prof. Dr. title in 2017 in Economics Thought. She graduated from two different B.A., firstly in economics department; secondly in business administration, her M. Sc. was in economics too. She decided to gain her Ph.D. in another field, public relations. She was appointed as an Assist. Prof. Dr. in Business and Administration department in University of Artvin Fac- ulty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. She decided to make her Assoc. Prof. Dr. proficiency exam in economics field. She was appointed as Assoc. Prof. Dr. in University of Bartin, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in Economics department. She has several international publications. She has been published many articles with some international indexes. Her areas of specialization are Institutional Economics, Political Economics, Public Relations. Her graduations are University of Gazi (Ankara, ), of Business Admin- istration (Eskişehir, Turkey), University of Ankara (Ankara, Turkey).

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H. Isil Alkan is Assistant Professor in Department of Economics of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ondokuz Mayıs University. She holds B.A. from Economics (), M.A. from Agricultural Economics (Ondokuz Mayıs University) and Ph. D. from Economics (Gazi University). She has teaching and research experience in the area of Economy Policy, Agricultural Economics and Gender Economics. She has several manuscripts, conference papers and book chapters in the stated fields. She is the author of the book; Female Labour in Agri- culture Sector (Gazi Bookstore, 2018).

Tugba Aydin Halisoglu is Assistant Professor at Artvin Coruh University, De- partment of Political Science and Public Administration. She obtained her BA and MA degrees in Public Administration at Akdeniz University and PhD in Political About the Contributors

Theory at Luiss Guido Carli University. Her academic interests are in the fields of nationalism, migration, citizenship, European Union and Central Asian relations.

Ilke Civelekoglu, University of Virginia, PhD, is a full-time associate professor at Istanbul Ticaret University. She specializes in international and comparative political economy. She published several book chapters and various articles in journals, such as Turkish Studies, International Development, and Uluslararasi Iliskiler Dergisi.

Derya Guler Aydin received a master’s degree in Economics from , and the Ph.D. degree in Economics from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey in 2002 and 2008, respectively. She conducted postdoctoral research at Sheffield University in 2011. She is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Hacettepe University. Her research interests include History of Economic Analysis, Methodology of Science, Institutional Economics and Feminist Economics.

Ikbal Maulana is a researcher in the Research Center for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and Management, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2KMI – LIPI). His research interests include sociology of knowledge, sociology of tech- nology, philosophy of technology and media studies. Recently, due to what happen in Indonesian politics and society, he focuses his research on the impact of social media on politics, social transformation, as well as individual transformation.

Kubra Onder was born in Ankara. She graduated from Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics. She has a master’s degree from the same university and a PhD degree from Süleyman Demirel University. She started working as a specialist and manager in the Ministry of Na- tional Defense. She has worked as an assistant professor at Mehmet Akif Ersoy University from February 2015 until April 2019. She is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. Her research interests inculude micro economy, industrial economics, time series, and panel data analysis.

Itir Ozer-Imer received a master’s degree in Economics from Hacettepe Uni- versity, and the Ph.D. degree in Economics from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey in 2001 and 2007, respectively. She has conducted postdoctoral research at George Mason University, School of Public Policy from February 2011 until Feb-

332 About the Contributors ruary 2012. She is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Hacettepe University. Her research interests include international political economy, economic development, international trade and finance, and economic integration.

Başak Özoral received her Ph.D. from the McGill University in 2011. Her re- search focuses on political economy, modernization in the Middle East, economy and culture in the Middle East and globalization. She taught at Qatar University and American University in Dubai for five years. She teaches courses on the Middle East, political economy, and research methods, and she regularly co-authors papers with graduate students at Istanbul Commerce University.

Muhammet Sahin was born in Van. He graduated from Suleyman Demirel Uni- versity, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Finance. He has a master’s degree and a PhD degree from the same university. He started working as an officer The Ministry of Finance. In 2009, he started to work as an assistant professor at Gumushane University. He has been working as a Dr. lecturer.

Pınar Yardımcı was hired as the lecturer in public finance and economics by the Silifke-Tasucu Vocational School at The University of Selcuk in 1992. She received her MS in Economics from the University of Cukurova in 1997 and PhD in Economics from the University of Selcuk in 2006. She is currently associate professor of international economics and Head of Foreign Trade Department in the Silifke-Tasucu Vocational School at The University of Selcuk. She is the author of International Economic Institutions (2014, Detay Publishing) and studies about economic development and international economics.

Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ashford University in the United States. She heads the business ethics program, and oversees the curriculum design and management of the online course offerings in business ethics. Her areas of expertise fall in the interdisciplinary area known as philosophy, politics, and economics. She is particularly interested in examinations of social phenomena (known in philosophy as social ontology, or the philosophy of society). This includes the description of the various domains of the human social world, including that objects that constitute them and the relations among them), and the dynamics among the different kinds of value phenomena in social reality. Dr. Zúñiga y Postigo’s work is influenced by the Austro-German philosophical tradition, includ-

333 About the Contributors ing thinkers such as Brentano, Meinong, Ehrenfels, Husserl, Reinach, and Stein. She also draws from the contributions of the Austrian School of Economics, especially Menger and Hayek. Dr. Zúñiga y Postigo’s current research pertains to business ethics, and affective phenomena, especially empathy in the tradition of Edith Stein. Her interests is in neuroethics, neurophenomenology, and evolutionary economics has also shed light on examination of Hayek’s Sensory Order, especially the role of intersubjectivity in the mechanics of choice. She also explores the geography of different understandings of responsibility, from corporate social responsibility, social capital, to the framework of commutative and distribute justice in Catholic social thought.

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