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Foreword
The present book which studies the current economy of
Iran with a special emphasis on extraterritorial trade has
some characteristics. First of all, the need to analyze the
causes of the economic and social interactions in present
Iranian society compelled the writer to have a look at the
historical roots of the changes. No comprehensive book on
the history of Iran's economy is available and the works so
far written by writers and researchers mainly study the
political, social and cultural events. The first part of this
book which includes a summarized analysis of the history
of Iranian economy, as far as the writer knows, is the first
work in this area. Valuable researches have been done
about the specifications of the Iranian economy in certain
historical junctures by Iranian and foreign researchers and
the writer has made use of some of them in the present
study, but the Iranian economy as a whole and as a
correlated system has not been analyzed and evaluated
before. The second specification of the present research is
the historical study of the Iranian economy until
contemporary era with a special look at foreign trade
within the framework of four historical periods. The
selection of these four periods – as most writers divide the
history of Iran into two pre-Islamic and post-Islamic
periods- which is done for the first time can help clarify
the economic and social changes better. The other
advantage of this buch goes back to the study of economic
changes of Iran in the fourth and last phase during which
the efforts to reconstruct and modernize economy are
divided into three courses of modernizing structures
before the Mullahs and one course of "efforts toward
modernization" after the Mullahs came to power.
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Verband deutscher Schriftsteller in ver.di
70 Jahre Antikriegstag
Texte von Rüdiger Strüve, Fredericke Frei,
Behrooz Arman und Helga Frien
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