Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Since the 1979 revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran has grappled with the problems of running the complex, rapidly changing economy inherited from the Shah, under an Islamic banner. Castigating the ancien regime for establishing a consumerist, dependent economy along Western lines, the theocratic regime has tried to create an Islamic economic framework on the basis of independence, self-sufficiency and distributional justice. Faced with the difficulties of managing an oil-based and export-led economy within this narrow framework, the government has encountered numerous problems and has had to reverse its course in many areas. The result has been a rudderless economy, attempting to combine Islamic orthodoxy with the exigencies of the dominant international system of global free enterprise.. }
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- catalog description "Since the 1979 revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran has grappled with the problems of running the complex, rapidly changing economy inherited from the Shah, under an Islamic banner. Castigating the ancien regime for establishing a consumerist, dependent economy along Western lines, the theocratic regime has tried to create an Islamic economic framework on the basis of independence, self-sufficiency and distributional justice. Faced with the difficulties of managing an oil-based and export-led economy within this narrow framework, the government has encountered numerous problems and has had to reverse its course in many areas. The result has been a rudderless economy, attempting to combine Islamic orthodoxy with the exigencies of the dominant international system of global free enterprise.".