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Hossein Mahdavy

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Hossein Mahdavy is an Iranian economist and political scientist known for rentier state theory.[1] After Mahdavy's work on rentier states, rentierism became a common conception for analyzing some developing states like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Venezuela.[2]

He studied at Oxford and Harvard Universities.

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  1. ^ Interview with William Green Miller The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project 2005. Retrieved 29 March 2023
  2. ^ Jenkins, J. Craig; Meyer, Katherine; Costello, Matthew; Aly, Hassan (2011). "International Rentierism in the Middle East Africa, 1971–2008". International Area Studies Review. 14 (3): 3–31. doi:10.1177/223386591101400301. ISSN 2233-8659. S2CID 130175960.