Gülten Kazgan
 Gülten Kazgan     (academic, economist) | |
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| Born | 5 June 1927 İstanbul, Turkey |
| Nationality | Turkish |
| Alma mater | Robert College, Istanbul University, University of Chicago |
Known as the "Doyen of Economics" in Turkey | |
Gulten Kazgan is a Turkish economist.
Kazgan, who started studying economics at Robert College, became a student at Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics in 1946. She graduated from university in 1950 and started her business life at the Industrial Development Bank. After a while, she started working as an assistant at the same university.
She received her doctorate with his thesis on "Long-Term Tendencies of the Instability of Agricultural Income". Gülten Kazgan become a known name in agricultural economy after this process. With a Rockefeller scholarship, she went to the University of Chicago in 1957 and studied under neoliberal Theodore Schultz, a leader of the Chicago school of economics.
Then, on returning to work within the agricultural economy of Turkey, she wrote "The Supply Function in Turkish Agriculture," Continuing with the thesis, she received the title of associate professor in 1961. In 1975, she worked in Rome and Paris for a year, lectured at Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, began to write books on political economy. She retired from Istanbul University, where she was a professor in 1994.
Acting as the founding rector of Istanbul Bilgi University, Prof. Dr. Gülten Kazgan worked as the Head of the Economics Department and the Research Center at this institution. Kazgan, who is known as "Professor of Teachers" and "Doyen of Economics" in the economy community, was appointed as "Emeritus Professor" by Istanbul Bilgi University in 2010.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1975 | 25 April 1975 | 27 April 1975 | Turkey Golden Dolphin Hotel Cesme | The 24th Bilderberg Meeting, 98 guests |
