Şevket Pamuk

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Şevket Pamuk, born in 1950, is an internationally recognized professor of economics and economic history at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests include Turkish economic history since 1800, the Ottoman economy in the early modern era, and economic growth in the Balkans and the Middle East since 1800. He co-authored A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century (1999) with Harvard-based historian Roger Owen. He also wrote several books and articles both in Turkish and English.

Pamuk is also the older brother of Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.