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Academic economics portal prepared by the TED University Economic Research Union. Bringing together 4 exclusive Spotify podcast series, 5 journal issues, 51 in-depth research articles, faculty interviews, AI-assisted executive summaries, and live global market indicators in a unified editorial space.
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ISSUE 5 · 2026
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ISSUE 1 · 2025
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Daron Acemoglu: The Story Behind the Nobel
How institutions, not culture or geography, drive nations' prosperity—the Nobel Prize-winning insight.
Impact of AI Agents on the Workforce According to Anthropic Reports
AI agents reshape work at the task level with mixed labor market effects and rising automation.
Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market
AI reshapes labor through substitution and complementarity, raising risks to income and job meaning.
The AI Money Machine: How to Justify These Cashflows?
How the AI ecosystem's circular capital flows and platform dynamics justify billions in investments and fuel continued growth.
Does AI Boost Labor Productivity?
Examining the paradox of AI and labor productivity: empirical evidence of gains versus risks of over-automation.
Inflation, Uncertainty and AI: Interview with Prof. Dr. Erdem Başçı
Prof. Başçı on inflation dynamics, AI opportunities for emerging economies, and digital currencies.
An Early Trial of Euro: Central Bank of West African States
BCEAO: Africa's pioneering monetary union navigates sovereignty and geopolitical fragmentation.
Behavioral Economics with Dr. Cavit Gorkem Destan
Behavioral economist Dr. Cavit Görkem Destan on why people make irrational decisions and the future of economic research.
Big Tech Wants to Orchestrate the Economy
Big tech companies use AI to orchestrate entire economies and automate labor at scale.
Understanding the Turkish Stock Market (BIST)
A beginner's guide to Türkiye's stock exchange, its structure, indexes, and how to invest.
How Breakups Affect the Economy: Marriages, Breakups and Divorces
How breakups reshape household finances, workplace productivity, mental health, and consumer markets worldwide.
Chocolate: A Sweet Treat or Deforestation Driver?
How holiday chocolate demand drives hidden deforestation across West Africa's cocoa supply chain.
AI-Employment Puzzle: An Exclusive Interview with Prof. Dr. Cilasun
Prof. Cilasun on how AI will reshape labor markets, deepen inequality, and demand urgent policy action.
Climate Change and Sustainability with Sultan Tepe
Interview with Istanbul Chamber of Industry sustainability leader on climate change, industry's role, and global green initiatives.
How Is Commuting Affecting Our Mood? The Commuting Paradox
Research reveals why workers can't truly compensate for long commutes, despite economic theory's predictions.
Who Is Afraid of Consumerism?
How consumerism replaced politics as the engine of modern economies and stability.
Corruption and Economic Growth
How corruption reshapes economies: weighing theories and institutional effects on growth and investment.
Technological Creativity and Creative Destruction: The Ideas Behind the Nobel Prize
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics explains how technological progress and creative destruction drive growth.
Learning: The Power Beyond Diminishing Returns
Learning transcends diminishing returns when people invest in new knowledge and skills.
An Interview with Prof. Dr. Nazire Nergiz Dincer
Prof. Dinçer on her path from mathematics through SPO crises to sustainable trade and circular economics.
Economic Boycotting: A Historical and Academic Perspective
Boycotts as consumer power: from historic movements to modern activism shaping corporate behavior and economies.
How Economists Use Artificial Intelligence in Their Research
Economists embrace machine learning for prediction, causal inference, and solving complex models.
Is Having a Common Currency Beneficial for EU Countries?
Does the Euro serve all EU members equally? Examining currency flexibility, sovereignty, and resilience across Europe.
Everything Is a Lie: The World Just Turns Around Itself 365 Times
How consumerism converts vulnerability into endless cycles of work, debt, and self-doubt through psychological manipulation.
Evolution of Economics Advice
Matching Theory reshapes economics: from school assignment to vaccine rationing and refugee placement.
Game Theory with Dr. Gunnur Ege Bilgin
Dr. Günnur Ege Bilgin on Game Theory's role in everyday life, global crises, and AI rationality.
Gender-Based Consumer Behavior: Women's and Men's Spending Habits
Women control 70–80% of household spending; men trade riskier but underperform.
Political Economy, Institutions and Technology: FieldTalks with Asst. Prof. Arda Gitmez
Political economy meets technology: how institutions, media, and AI reshape society and progress.
The Future of Human Capital: Navigating the Duality of AI in Professional Practice
Generative AI expands professional capability while risking cognitive decline and knowledge collapse.
Matching Theory and Market Design with Dr. Günnur Ege Bilgin
Dr. Günnur Ege Bilgin on matching theory, market design, and the winding path to academia.
Money Growth and Inflation in the 21st Century
Friedman's quantity theory of money frames inflation as fundamentally a monetary phenomenon — over time, money growth and inflation move together.
The OpenAI Effect: Why Your Next Electronic Device Just Doubled in Price
An analysis of how AI infrastructure demand can reshape semiconductor supply and consumer electronics prices.
The Debt Spiral of the Ottoman Empire: Foreign Capital and Loss of Economic Independence
How 19th-century foreign borrowing trapped the Ottoman Empire in debt dependency and economic dependence.
Gazi Mustafa Kemal's Program of Populism with Dr. Serdar Sahinkaya
Dr. Şahinkaya explores Atatürk's visionary early-Republican development model and the Izmir Economic Congress.
Reading the Economy Through Numbers: What Do Mathematical Models Tell Us?
Mathematical models reveal how economies make strategic decisions through game theory and data analysis.
The Rise of AI Agents: How the Most-Used Agentic LLM Is Reshaping Finance and Beyond
How AI agents are reshaping finance and enterprise, with Claude emerging as the dominant agentic LLM.
The Greatest Macroeconomic Illusion in History: Hjalmar Schacht's "Miracle"
How Schacht's shadow banking illusion masked Nazi Germany's economic bankruptcy.
Global Seasonal Consumption Peaks
Digital platforms drive global retail convergence toward synchronized November shopping peaks.
Serbest Piyasa: Cannot be found…
A critical look at free markets, monopoly power, and why markets are not always as open as they appear.
Who's Afraid of the Steam Engine?
AI agents automate cognitive judgment at scale, demanding institutional redesign and raising questions about control.
Sustainability and Its Importance
How resource depletion and climate change reshape economic and policy priorities globally.
Energy Investments in Syria Under the New Government
An analysis of energy investments, renewable potential, and policy direction in Syria under the new government.
The Dynamic Interaction Between Total Factor Productivity, Exports, and Economic Growth
How productivity, exports, and growth form a self-reinforcing virtuous cycle for nations.
"At Least 3 Kids!"
Türkiye's fertility rate has plummeted to 1.48 per woman, driven by education, urbanization, and delayed marriage.
Trade War: Is It a Winnable or Losing War for the United States?
Does Trump's tariff strategy strengthen the US or cede advantage to China and regional competitors?
Transportation and Infrastructure From an R&D and Innovation Perspective
High-speed rail, subways, and highways boost R&D innovation through knowledge spillovers and cost reduction.
What Happened to Uncovered Interest Parity?
When US tariffs contradicted economic theory, the dollar fell despite rising rates.
What Will I Be When I Grow Up?
A fourth-year economics student reflects on finding her path through mentorship and honest self-discovery.
Will AI Take My Job? A Literature Review on Employment and Automation Risks
Literature review exploring how AI automation and augmentation affect employment across OECD countries and skill levels.
Winter Is Coming, or Not?
How AI expectations in fiction diverge from reality and why we're experiencing an AI winter.
Economics of AI with Prof. Dr. Altug Yalcintas
Interview with Prof. Dr. Altuğ Yalçıntaş on AI's economic impact, labor disruption, and digital sovereignty.
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