An Intellectual Project

Working on my observations and forming them as a framework for my future hypothesis on value of individuals in economic system, I was starting to my intellectual project in 1996. Being a student of international economics in Gazi University, I focused my attention on resource allocation, income distribution and international political economy. The main arguments of my hypothesis are concentrated around the human hierarchies and individual choice in different formal and informal institutes.

STRUCTURAL CHANGES and "HUMAN TREES"

At the same time, the fields of activities for hierarchies change: i.e. it is possible to classify my research as the new interpretation of the theory of the sectoral development (Clark Fisher’s Theory of Structural Change). This more detailed hypothesis explains why one hierarchy is stronger than others and how it differs from others. It is useful to note, that as organization grows up (the higher an individual climbs up the hierarchy, the more resources he can manage and concentrate in his hands), the hierarchy itself develops its economic activity upon the fulfilled function.

Sectoral development of Colin Clark and Allan Fisher (as well as W.W.Rostow’s Development theory), have helped me to explain hierarchical development upwards. This institutional development started from the development of basic sectors up to the development of high technologies in the sphere of biotechnologies, space industry, IT and genetics (artificial brain is the last point of the known development).

Needless to say that development itself is connected with the development of particular individuals (e.g. it is difficult to compare the development of the outstanding leaders at the beginning of the 20^th and the 21^st centuries).

The main factor of human organization’s development primarily is linked with the accumulation of intellectual property and capital and also with an ability to attract above-mentioned resources plus creativity in organizing them together. Examples include markets of the USA, EC and states of South-East Asia, headed by Japan (and probably China later).As for as the problems concerned: in formulating my theory I have faced with the lack of necessary literature in this field. During the Soviet period, under the domination of the restricted ideology, there was a lack of Western literature and therefore, social sciences were far behind of the Western school. Having arrived in Turkey, I had an opportunity to get familiar with the needed literature. During the master education in Middle East Technical University, I used an opportunity to revise the contents of my observations, indirectly or directly related with the Hypothesis (Model) of the Human Trees due to the “Encyclopedia of social and behavioral sciences”.  The following fields may use this hypothesis as an instrument for teaching and theory building: the economics and international economy, the international relations, globalization, political economy, political sciences. The results of research will be useful in explanation of the fields, such as individual activity and influence of organization on formation of human institutes and effectiveness of the resource distribution within a state, as well as global world perception in the 21^st century. In my opinion, the future social sciences’ methodology will include the analysis of resource allocation/ distribution and possible mitigation of the growing difference between economic development and investments per capita in developed and developing countries.Globalization in the universal scale will continue as the consequence of the individuals’ rational choices, which include the attempts to establish the universal culture and the growth of the resource consumption.  I think that the development of universal resource allocation’s principles also will accelerate the centralization trends in human development. If we look at to this process from the geostrategic perspectives, one-polar world and availability of hyper-hierarchy in the world will increase tendencies of attracting more strong individuals to this World hyper-hierarchy (individuals with the highest intellectual capabilities and with the financial resources). My ACADEMIC PLANS for the NEAREST FUTURE

In this frame, during the 2006-2008, I am planning to prepare the following publications:

 The World without Borders (2009). A general explanation of the Human Trees’ principles; Civilization and Azerbaijan. New independent state and developing interaction between human hierarchies (2010); Civilization and South Caucasus (2012); Civilization and Eurasia. Comparative studies of human hierarchies in Russia and China (2012); Civilization. The penetrating glance into the human development (2015). At that stage of my academic development, I intend to continue my observations of globalizing world using the frameworks of my academic specialization (Eurasian studies, international political economy, economics and international affairs). Particularly, the subtle observations of political trends in Eurasian region are the principal materials for my nearest academic projects. I hope to continue my academic perfection, using the last technological opportunities, innovations and my knowledge of foreign languages. The personal observations noted in different stages of my career in last 10 years would be another source of my academic contributions. 

For my articles in Azeri see: