Prof. Dr. Fatma Doğruel

She was born in 1955. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Hacettepe University, and the PhD degree in agricultural economics from Çukurova University. She was a faculty member of Çukurova University starting from 1978 until 1988. Starting from 1988 she was a faculty member of Marmara University until her retirement in 2022. The awards she has received are the Turkish Social Sciences Association Award for Encouraging Young Social Scientists (1987), Sedat Simavi Foundation Price in Social Sciences (1990), Scientist of the year, Cyprus Turkish Economic Association (2019) and Turkish Economic Association (TEA) Academic Service Award (2023). Her publications are related to the fields of economic growth and development, regional economics, agricultural economics, macroeconomics of developing countries and economic history of Türkiye in the Republican Period. She was a board member of the Middle East Economic Association (MEEA) (2010-2012) and served as the Executive Secretary of MEEA between 2013 and 2015. She was a board member of the Turkish Regional Science Association (2019-2021). She is the current editor of Ekonomi-tek, which is the journal of the Turkish Economic Association Foundation.

 

Doç. Dr. N. Emrah Aydınonat

Emrah Aydinonat is a philosopher of economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, and a member of the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science (TINT). He holds the titles of Docent in both Philosophy (University of Helsinki, 2019) and Economics (Turkish Council of Higher Education, 2012). Aydinonat serves as one of the Chief Editors of the Journal of Economic Methodology and is a member of the Editorial Board of History of Economic Ideas. He is also part of the International Advisory Board for the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy and coordinates the Economic Methodology Research Area at the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Throughout his academic career, he has taught at various institutions across Europe—including the University of Helsinki, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Estonian Business School, and Tallinn University of Technology—and in Turkey at Ankara University, Boğaziçi University, Galatasaray University, Bahçeşehir University among others. Aydinonat’s authored books include “The Invisible Hand in Economics” (Routledge, 2008) and “İktisat Nedir?” (What is Economics?, İletişim, 2017). He has also co-edited several books, such as “Economics Made Fun: Philosophy of Pop-Economics” (Routledge, 2015). Additionally, he has published numerous articles in the fields of philosophy of economics and economic methodology. Beyond his academic work, he has written for various platforms including Wall Street Journal Turkey, Business HT, and TEPAV Blog. Currently, he authors the “İktisat Nedir? | Bülten” (What is Economics? | Bulletin), a newsletter with nearly 2,000 subscribers, accessible at iktisatnedir.substack.com. For more information, visit neaydinonat.com.