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Coşkun Can Aktan

Coşkun Can Aktan (born 1963) 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 of the Turkish economy, analyzing and writing on the movement of Turkey from a statist 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.

Coskun Can Aktan is widely considered one of the important Turkish intellectual and critical author in social sciences. Aktan's writing has often been explicitly critical of academia and electoralism in particular. He has published several books and numerous articles criticizing modern electoral democracies and advocating "demarchy" built mainly epistocracy, meritocracy, sortition and rotation. He is also a leading intellectual writing on numerous critical books and articles on the mass higher education and academic nihilism. Provided by Wikipedia