Ayşe Buğra Awarded TWAS Prize in Social Sciences

Click here to read the article in Turkish / Haberin Türkçesi için buraya tıklayın

Prof. Dr. Ayşe Buğra, academic at Boğaziçi University Atatürk Instıtute for Modern Turkish History, and Director of Social Policy Forum Research and Practice Center, has been granted The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) prize 2015 in Social Sciences.

The prize, also known as Celso Furtado Prize, was given for her studies on social policies in developing economies and on global level.  

About Ayşe Buğra

After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, she continued her education at Bogazici University. Having done her Ph.D in Economics at McGill University, Canada, Buğra has produced work on the history and methodology of economics, development economics, and comparative social policy. 

Some of her works are as follows:

- Reading Karl Polanyi for the 21st Century: Market Economy as Political Project (co-edited with Kaan Agartan, 2009)

- Beyond the State-Market Dichotomy: Essays on Human Needs and Consumption, 2000

- Islam in Economic Organizations (1999)

- State, Market, and Organizational Form (co-edited with Behlül Üsdiken, 1997)

- State and Business in Modern Turkey: A Comparative Study (1994)

- On Economists and Human Behavior (1989) (EKN/TK)