Ahmet Tonak

• Ph.D. in Economics, New School for Social Research
• M.A. in Economics, New School for Social Research
• M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey

I teach Critical Political Ecology, Political Economy, Marxian Economics, and History of Economic Thought. My current research concentrates on post-capitalist societies, degrowth, and ecosocialism. My earlier research focused on capitalist economies, including recasting macroeconomic data based on the labor theory of value, theories of the capitalist state, and social wage.

Beyond UMass Amherst, I am a Research Affiliate in Environmental Science and Policy at Smith College. Previously, I taught in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Hampshire College, and Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Books

• Oral History of the Thesis Eleven, Forthcoming in 2024. İstanbul: Agora. (with Zümray Kutlu;  in Turkish).
• In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism. 2024. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (with Sungur Savran).
• Marksizm ve Sınıflar. 2014. İstanbul: Yordam Kitap (Marxism and Classes; co-editor with Sungur Savran and Kurtar Tanyılmaz; in Turkish).
• Kent Hakkı'ndan İsyan'a. 2013. İstanbul: Agora Kitaplığı (From Right to the City to the Uprising; in Turkish)
• Critical Perspectives on IMF and World Bank. ed. 2011, İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları.
• Batan Piyasalar: 21. Yüzyılın İlk Buhranı. 2010. İstanbul: Kırmızı Yayınları. (Sinking Markets: The First Depression of the 21st Century; in Turkish).
• Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts, 1994. New York: Cambridge University Press, (with Anwar Shaikh; paperback edition in 1996, also published in Turkish, 2012).
• Turkey in Transition: New Perspectives, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987 (co-editor with I.C. Schick); also published in Turkish 1990, 1992,1998, 2002 and 2014.

Articles

• "Capital in Turkey", forthcoming, The Dissemination of Marx's Capital in the World (1867-2017). Musto, M. and Amini, B. eds. London: Routledge (with S. Savran).
• “The Value of Marx in The Value of Everything”, forthcoming, Review of Radical Political Economics.
• “Clarification and Application of the Category Profit on Alienation”,  2024.  Review of Radical Political Economics. 56:2.  (with Alper Duman)
• “The Net Social Wage in Turkey, 1980-2019”, 2022. Review of Radical Political Economics. 1-22 (with Yakup Karabacak).
• “Moribund Competitive Capitalism”, 2021. The Veins of the South Are Still Open: Debates Around the Imperialism of Our Time. Emiliano López ed. New Delhi: LeftWord Books (also in Spanish).
• “Does the Digital Sector Produce Surplus Value? The Case of Facebook”, 2020. METU Studies in Development. Vol. 47, No: 2.
• “Turkey’s Economy Since the 1980 Military Coup” 2018. Özyürek, E. et al. eds. Authoritarianism and Resistance in Turkey: Conversations on Democratic and Social Challenges. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
• “On the Law of Falling Rate of Profit”, 2017. Festschrift to Honor Fikret Şenses: To Review Turkey from the Perspective of Development Economics. Cömert, H.  et al. eds. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları (in Turkish).
• “MEGA 2 and Marx’s Crisis Theory” 2017. İktisat Dergisi. No: 543 (in Turkish).
• "A Marxist Framework for Recasting National Input-Output Networks", 2013.  Festschrift to Honor Ümit Şenesen: Turkish Economy in Numbers. Aşıcı, A. A. et al. eds. İstanbul: Literatür Yayıncılık (with Alper Duman; in Turkish).
• "Infernal Machine: Capitalism; On Fredric Jameson's Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One", 2013. Duvar. No: 8. (in Turkish)
• "Turkey", 2008. Karl Marx's Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later. Musso, M. ed. London: Routledge (translated also to Chinese, Italian and Farsi)
• "Does Economic Growth Mean the Rise of the Wealth of Nations?", 2007. Neoliberal Globalization as New Imperialism: Case Studies on Reconstruction of the Periphery) Köse, A. H. et al. eds. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
• "The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Welfare State", 2000. in Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on Economic Theory and Policy, Ron Baiman; Heather Boushey; Dawn Saunders (eds.), Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, (with Anwar Shaikh; Choice Outstanding Academic Book in Economics for 2000; reprinted in 2015 by Routledge).