Learning to tax: The political economy of the opium trade in Iran, 1921-1941

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hansen, B
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050701025050
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 95-113
• 关键词: institutions

摘要

Rational-choice theories of the state have been used in attempts to explain how variations in policy result from differences in constraints. But these theories give little attention to how the state comes to know what the constraints are. This article provides a dramatic example of the process of discovering economic and political constraints by examining Iran's policies toward the opium trade during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi (1921-1941).