Economist, author. She was born in
June 05, 1927 in Istanbul. Her full name
is Fatma Gülten Kazgan. After completing her primary school education, she
entered American Girls' College. She continued to Conservatory in those years
and started to play the piano. She was introduced to economy in those years.
She started to be interested in economy since the ninth grade of American
Girls' College and graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics by
taking lectures from famous German economists such as Neumark, Kesler and Isaac
(1950). She completed her doctoral studies with her thesis named "Long
Term Trends of Instability of Income in Agriculture" and went to the
University of Chicago with the Rockefeller scholarship. She worked for two
years with T.W. Schultz there. She returned to Istanbul University Faculty of
Economics and became an associate professor with her presentation named
"Supply Function in Turkish Agriculture" (1961). She has become a
competent name in the area of agricultural economy.
She used her works in this period
and published her book named "Agriculture and Development". She
worked at SVIMEZ (Rome) for two summers with the scholarship from Ford
Foundation and at ISEA (Paris) for one year (1975). She received her professorship
from Istanbul University Faculty of Economics. She started to study on
political economy and began to publish books on this subject. Her research and
articles were published in “Cumhuriyet” and “Milliyet” newspapers and journals such as "Yön”, “İktisat ve Maliye Mecmuası” and “Toplum Bilim” She focused her studies on theories of economy and published her book “İktisadi Düşünce veya
Politik İktisadın Evrimi” (1969)’. Prof. Kazgan's book named "Tanzimat’tan XXI.Yüzyıla Türkiye Ekonomisi Birinci Küreselleşmeden İkinci
Küreselleşmeye” (1999) draws a panorama of Turkish
economy and explains how Ottoman state was semi-colonized. In the second
chapter, she examines how Turkey was dragged into second globalization from
1980 onwards with the liberalization of goods, services and capital. Finally,
she produces scenarios for the Turkey's position in the first twenty years of
21st century.
She was selected as the "best
economist in her area" in 1988 by the readers of "Ekonomik Panorama"; and received the 1998 "Women of
Enlightenment" prize; and "the Academician of the Year" in 2000
by the readers of "Finans
Dünyası" journal. In 2002, she
received the Social Sciences Award from Turkish Journalists' Association Sedat
Simavi Awards.
Prof. Kazgan was retired from
Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics in 1994. She participated in the
establishment of Istanbul Bilgi University as "Member of Founding
Foundation". She worked as the President of Research Center for
Society-Economy-Politics (TESAR) in the same university and as the member of
Founding Foundation. She is a member of several occupational and research
institutions.
She made a presentation with Korkut
Boratav (chair), Ayşe Buğra, Ergun Türkcan, Taner Timur, İşaya Üşür at the
closing panel of TSBD (Turkish Social Sciences Association) 9th National Social
Sciences Congress; which was remarkable. Kazgan has a neutral style and her
works analyze the ideas in-depth and she clearly reveals the ideologies. She
wrote several articles and made works on the education of woman in Turkey and
the problems of woking women.
WORKS:
Tarım Ekonomisi ve İktisadi Gelişme (1966), Ortak
Pazar ve Türkiye (1970), Ekonomide
Dışa Açık Büyüme (1973), 100 Soruda Ortak Pazar ve Türkiye (1975), İktisadi
Düşünce ve Tarihi (1981), Tarım ve Geliştirme
(1983), Türkiye’de Gelir Bölüşümü
(1992), Kuştepe Araştırması 1999
(ortak, 1999), Tanzimat’tan XXI. Yüzyıla
Türkiye Ekonomisi Birinci Küreselleşmeden İkinci Küreselleşmeye (1999), Küreselleşme ve Ulus-Devlet Yeni Ekonomik
Düzen (2000), Kuştepe Gençlik
Araştırmaları (2002), Tarım ve
Gelişme (2003), Dünden Bugüne Türkiye
ve Rusya Politik Ekonomik ve Kültürel İlişkiler (2003), İktisadi Düşünce veya Politik İktisadın
Evrimi (2004), Türkiye Ekonomisinde
Krizler 1919- 2001: Ekonomi Politik Açısından
Bir İrdeleme (2005), İstanbul
Gençliği Gençlik Değerleri Araştırması (2006),
REFERENCE: Görsel Büyük Genel Kültür
Ansiklopedisi (1984), Büyük Larousse Ansiklopedisi (1986), İhsan Işık / Türkiye Edebiyatçılar ve Kültür Adamları
Ansiklopedisi (2006).
