Ayşe Buğra is a Turkish

Turkey

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 social scientist

Social Scientist

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, currently Professor of Political Economy

Political economy

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 at Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History and the co-founder of Social Policy Forum of Boğaziçi University

Bogaziçi University

Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has five faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees...

 in İstanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

.

After graduating from Robert College

Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul , is one of the most selective independent private high schools in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutköy district to the east, and...

 of Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, she continued her education at Bogazici University

Bogaziçi University

Boğaziçi University is a public university located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey. It has five faculties and two schools offering undergraduate degrees, and six institutes offering graduate degrees...

. Having done her Ph.D in Economics at McGill University

McGill University

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, Canada

Canada

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, Buğra has produced work on the history

History

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 and methodology of economics, development economics

Development economics

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, and comparative social policy. In addition to various publications in Turkish, English, and French, she is the translator of The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

Karl Polanyi

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into Turkish (1986).