Ahmet is the author and editor of several books including Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts (with Anwar Shaikh), Turkey in Transition: New Perspectives (edited with Irvin Schick), and Marxism and Classes (edited with Sungur Savran and Kurtar Tanyılmaz). Trained as a mechanical engineer at Istanbul Technical University, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research. Ahmet taught for many years at Istanbul Bilgi University, Middle East Technical University, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He wrote for several Turkish dailies and contributes to sendika.org, an alternative news portal in Turkey.