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Economic Development and Revolutionary Upheavals in Iran

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The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they seem engaged in revolutionising themselves and things, in creating something entirely new, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names, battle slogans and costumes in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language. (Marx, 1851, p. 595)

This is a substantially revised and updated version of the paper that appeared in the September 1980 issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, under the pseudonym of Thomas Walton. The author wishes to thank Massoud Karshenas, Nikki Keddie, Suzy Paine, Hadi Shams and John Wells for their helpful and constructive comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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Pesaran, M.H. (1985). Economic Development and Revolutionary Upheavals in Iran. In: Afshar, H. (eds) Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17966-4_2

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