Ofis: Güvercinlik
- Economic methodology
- Ethics and economics
- Institutional economics
- Behavioral economics
- Economics of religion
Ömer Demir (Ph.D) completed his undergraduate studies (1988) and received his Master's degree (1990) in the field of Political Science and Public Administration at the Middle East Technical University. He received his PhD degree from Anadolu University in 1993 in the field of Economic Methodology. Title of the dissertation is Normative Methodology of Positive Economics. He worked as an academic staff in until 2003 at Kırıkkale University. Between 2003-2008 he worked as president of Turkish Statistical Institue and vice-president of Higher Education Council of Turkey (2008-2012); the first rector of Social Sciences University of Ankara (2013-2015); president of Turkish National Exam Center (OSYM). He joined TÜBİTAK (Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) as board member for two terms (2012-2018) and also board member of Statistical Economic and Social Research and Training Centre For Islamic Countries (SESRIC) (2003-2008) and now he still is the representative of Turkey in the board of SESRIC. He has several books and articles on the relationships between economy, culture and society, namely on economics and ethics, institutional economics, economic methodology, economics of religion and behavioral economics.
- Member of Economic History Division at Department of Economics
- ECON 516 Institutional Economics
- He has studied methodology of economics.
- He has works regarding the use of normative methodology in economics.
- He has researched the relationship between ethics, religion and economics.
"I am a professor of scientific method. Well, somehow this is a paradox, because I don't believe there is such thing" Karl Popper (Telos, 1995,102, p. 119)
He has publications on economic methodology, ethics and economics, institutional economics, behavioral economics and economics of religion.