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Dr Fazil Acar

Dr Fazil Acar

  • Position: Academic
  • Areas of expertise: Economics Pedagogy And Teaching Economics To Non-Economists; Money, Monetary Theory and Policy; Central Banking; International Finance; Political Economy Of Artificial Intelligence And Science
  • Email: M.F.Acar@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 8687
  • Location: GM.12 Maurice Keyworth Building

Profile

Qualifications

PhD, University of Leeds
MA, University of Texas
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Work Experience

University of Leeds
Department of Economics
2009–present

Wayne State University
Department of Economics
2006–2008

University of Texas
Department of Economics
2004–2005

Responsibilities

  • APT MSc Programmes in Economics
  • APT 1st Year Undergraduate Pogrammes

Research interests

My research focuses on monetary economics, political economy, and structural change in contemporary capitalist economies. A core area of my work examines money, monetary theory and policy, with particular attention to central banking systems, monetary institutions, and international financial dynamics.

More recently, my research has expanded to the political economy of artificial intelligence and automation. This work investigates how AI-driven production challenges wage-based economic systems, reshapes the role of the state, and transforms the functioning of money, fiscal policy, and capitalism itself.

Alongside this, I maintain a strong research interest in economics pedagogy, especially the teaching of economics to non-economists. This strand explores how economic concepts can be communicated more effectively, linking theory to real-world decision making and contemporary policy debates.

Overall, my research adopts a pluralist political economy perspective, aiming to connect monetary systems, technological change, and education in order to better understand the challenges facing modern economies.

I currently supervise PhD students in these research areas.

Student education

Current Teaching

  • Economics for Management, first year undergraduate

Supervision

  • PhD supervision in my research areas

  • MSc dissertation supervision

  • Undergraduate final-year dissertation supervision

Past Teaching

  • Intermediate Macroeconomics, second year undergraduate

  • Economics of Strategy, MBA level

  • Economic Theory and Applications, first year undergraduate

  • Economic Controversies

  • Economics of Globalisation and International Economics