Economist. He completed his PhD in the field of economic
history at California University. He gave lectures at the Middle East Technical
University until 1982. He is still working as an academician at
Suny-Binghampton University and İstanbul University.
WORKS:
Definition of a Peripheral
Economy, State and Class in Turkey, İstanbul between the Global and the Local,
Osmanlı'da Toprak Mülkiyeti ve Ticari
Tarım (Land Ownership and Mercantile Agriculture in the Ottomans, with Faruk Tabak, translated by Zeynep Altok,
1998), İstanbul-Küresel ile Yerel
Arasında (İstanbul Between the
Global and the Local, compiled, 2000).