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Course Name	Turkish	Bölgesel Ekonomi
	English	Regional Economics
Course Code	BPL 509	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Derya Gültekin
Course Objectives		To ensure that students gain a theoretical background on regional economics. To provide students an understanding of regional development in Turkey and to inform about the actors, legal framework and ethical issues.
Course Description		Location Thoery, Regional Growth theories, the impact of globalization on regional economies, interregional inequalities, agglomeration and dispersion of economic activities, regional development in Turkey, legal framework, actors and ethical issues.
Course Outcomes		Descriptive analysis of economic geography (skill), Factors influencing regional development (knowledge), Knowledge about the impacts of globalization on regional economies, Legal and administrative framework of regional development in Turkey (knowledge), The course of regional development in Turkey (knowledge).
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Textbook		Dinler, Z. (2014), Bölgesel İktisat, 10. Baskı, Ekin Yayınevi: Bursa. Kara, M.A. (2013), Bölgesel Ekonomi Teori ve Politikalar, Orion: Ankara.
Other References		James M. Cypher and James L. Dietz. 2009. The Process of Economic Development (3rd edition). Routledge: NY, USA, Ch. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 Duncan K. Foley ve Thomas R. Michl. 2015. Büyüme ve Bölüşüm. (çev. B. Eres), Phoenix: Ankara. Önsöz ve 1. Bölüm ? Amartya Sen. 1999. Development as Freedom. Anchor Books, Random House: New York. ?Introduction + Ch. 1 and 2. ? S. Alkire, S. 2002. “Dimension of Human Development.” World Development, Vol. 30. No.2: 181-205. Susan Wismer. 1999. “From the Ground Up: Quality of Life Indicators and Sustainable Community Development.” Feminist Economics, Vol.5, No.2: 79-137. D. Acemoğlu and J.A. Robinson. 2013. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, Crown Business. Ch. 1, 2, 3. ? P. Evans. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Ch.1, 5. ? Bhaduri. 2007. On the Dynamics of Wage- and Profit-led Growth. Working Paper No.42, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies. Amin, A. (1999), An institutionalist perspective on regional economic development, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 23: 365-378. Robert Stimson, vd. 2006. Regional Economic Development. Springer Verlag: Berlin and Heidelberg. Ch. 1, 2 Stiglitz. 2012. The Price of Inequality. How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future, WW Norton. Ch. 2, 3, 4, 7, 10. Robert Stimson, vd. 2006. Regional Economic Development. Springer Verlag: Berlin and Heidelberg. Ch. 8 Warner, M., and Z. Liu. 2006. “The Importance?of Childcare in Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of Regional Economic Linkage.” Economic Development Quarterly, 20, no. 1 (February): 97–103.

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