Turkish Economy
This course introduces the historical formation of the Turkish economic system. It locates developments in the Turkish economy within a dominant theoretical context and focuses on the current state of the economy.
Macroeconomic Theory
This course introduces the modern macroeconomic framework used to analyze output, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth, primarily through the New Keynesian model as presented in Blanchard’s Macroeconomics. While doing this, it adopts a critical perspective. Students will evaluate its core assumptions, empirical performance, and policy implications, and discuss its limitations in light of recent economic experiences, while also learning alternatives.
Post-Keynesian Economics I
This course introduces students to the Post-Keynesian approach to economics, beginning with its methodological foundations and emphasizing realism, historical time, fundamental uncertainty, and a critique of methodological individualism. It reconstructs microeconomics from a Post-Keynesian perspective by critically examining the neoclassical model of homo economicus and developing alternative views of consumer behavior based on social norms, habits, and income constraints. The course then analyzes firm behavior in modern capitalist economies, focusing on oligopolistic market structures, pricing practices, growth objectives, and managerial–shareholder conflicts. In the final part, it connects microeconomic foundations to macroeconomic outcomes by examining labor markets, wage determination, income distribution, firm-level financial fragility, and the fallacy of composition, preparing students for the macroeconomic analysis developed in Post-Keynesian Economics II.
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Post-Keynesian Economics II
Building on Post-Keynesian microeconomic foundations, this course develops a comprehensive Post-Keynesian approach to macroeconomics organized around three core themes: money and finance, growth and distribution, and inflation and policy. It examines the nature of credit money, endogenous money creation, modern central bank operations, and Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis, before turning to effective demand, investment, capacity utilization, employment, and alternative growth regimes. In the final part, the course explores heterodox theories of inflation, including the conflicting claims approach, and compares mainstream macroeconomic policy frameworks with Post-Keynesian alternatives. Throughout, the course challenges the notion of self-correcting markets and emphasizes demand-led growth, financial fragility, and distributional conflict as defining features of modern capitalist economies.
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Macroeconomic Modelling
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Alternative Theories of Inflation, Employment and Income Distribution
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Big Data Analytics
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Data Mining and Visualization
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Advanced Visualization Techniques
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