Coşkun Can Aktan


Coşkun Can Aktan is a political economist and a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, Turkey. He is founder and honorary chairman of the Social Sciences Research Society. Aktan is a leading expert on the privatization, analyzing and writing on the movement of Turkey from a government-owned to a market economy from its early days, making Aktan an early and internationally known source of information on Turkey's move toward a market-based economy.
He currently serves as an associate at, Cambridge, England and a research associate at of University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Coskun Can Aktan is the founder and editor of Journal of Law and Economics since 2009.

Academic career

Aktan graduated from the Ankara School of Finance in 1979 and completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Dokuz Eylül University. Between 1987 and 1989, he was visiting graduate student working on his dissertation under the supervision of Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan at the Center for the Study of Public Choice at George Mason University. He returned to the same center as a visiting scholar in the 1994–1995 academic year with a research grant from the Earhart Foundation.

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Selected publications

  • *, 2025,, ISBN 978-625-98070-1-0
  • *, 2025,, ISBN 978-625-98070-4-1
  • *, 2024,, ISBN 978-975-029-160-9
  • *, with A. Ekinci, 2022,, ISBN 978-975-027-849-5
  • *, 2021,, ISBN 978-605-4239-99-3
  • *, 2021,, ISBN 978-625-762-445-9
  • *, 2020,, ISBN 978-605-423-990-0
  • *, 2020,, ISBN 978-605-337-238-7
  • *,,, ISBN 978-975-025-684-4
  • *, 2018,, ISBN 978-975-025-125-2
  • *, 2017,, ISBN 978-605-952-423-0
  • *, 2008,, ISBN 978-975-020-704-4
  • , 2008,, ISBN 978-975-020-703-7