Erdogan Bakir

Educational Background

• B.S., Middle East Technical University, Ankara - Turkey
• M.S., Middle East Technical University, Ankara - Turkey
• Ph.D., The University of Utah

Research Interests

• The structure of the U.S. economy and the global economic imbalances
• Political economy of money and finance
• Heterodox growth theories

Courses

• ECON 204 Intermediate Political Economy
• ECON 203 Intermediate Macroeconomics
• ECON 429 Political Economy of Financial Crises

Selected Publications

"The Incubator of the Great Meltdown of 2008: The Structure and Practices of U.S. Neoliberalism as Attacks on Labor" (with Al Campbell), in Turan Subasat (editor), The Great Financial Meltdown: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy-Created?, Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming (2016)

"Business Cycles" (with Al Campbell), in D. Brennan, D. Kristjanson-Gural, C. Mulder and E. Olsen (editors), Routledge Handbook of Marxian Economics, Routledge: New York, forthcoming (2016)

"Is Over-investment the Cause of the Post-2007 U.S. Economic Crisis?" (with Al Campbell) Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 47 Issue 4, December 2015

"Capital Accumulation, Profitability and Crisis: Neoliberalism in the U.S." Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 47 Issue 3, September 2015

"The Financial Rate of Profit: What is It, and How Has It Behaved in the United States?" (with Al Campbell), Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 45 Issue 3, Summer 2013

"The Pre-1980 Roots of Neoliberal Financial Deregulation" (with Al Campbell), Journal of Economic Issues, Volume 46 Issue 2, June 2012

"Neoliberalism, the Rate of Profit and the Rate of Accumulation" (with Al Campbell), Science and Society, Volume 74 Issue 3, July 2010

"The Bush Business Cycle Profit Rate: Support in a Theoretical Debate and Implications for the Future" (with Al Campbell), Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 41 Issue 3, Summer 2009

"Quality of Work and Employment, Industrial Relations and Restructuring in Turkey" (with Erol Taymaz and Ali C. Tasiran), Report published by 'European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions', 2009

"The Effect of Neoliberalism on the Fall in the Rate of Profit in Business Cycles" (with Al Campbell), Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 38 Issue 3, Summer 2006.