Destructive Coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism : A New Reading of Contemporary Iran

1 Introduction -- 1.1 Problem Statement -- 1.2 Primacy of Institutions or Economy: Distribution or Production? -- 1.3 Bringing More Diversity to ‘Diversity of Capitalisms’ -- 1.4 Anfal and Economic Reductionism -- 1.5 Critical Order: Destructive Coordination -- 1.6 Research Method -- 1.7 Background of the Present Book -- References -- 2 Economic Systems, Modes of Production, and Coordination -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Endogenous Explanations of Social Order and Crisis -- 2.3 Two Levels of Defining Economic Systems -- 2.4 Market Coordination -- 2.5 Authoritative Coordination -- 2.6 Cooperative Coordination -- 2.7 Destructive Coordination -- 2.8 Political Economy of Coordination -- 2.9 Complementarity and Articulation Problem -- 2.10 Other Related Classifications -- 2.11 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Conceptualizing Destructive Coordination -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Theoretical Background -- 3.3 Destructive Coordination in a One-Shot Game: Traffic Circles -- 3.4 Destructive Coordination in a Repeated Game: Prison -- 3.5 Destructive Coordination and Predatory Appropriation -- 3.6 Biopiracy: Res Nullius and Privatization -- 3.7 Destructive Coordination and Disarticulation Problem -- 3.8 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Political Capitalism, its Varieties, and Islam -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Term Capitalism and Diversity of Capitalisms -- 4.3 Weber: Market Versus Political Capitalism -- 4.4 Political Capitalism and Crony Capitalism -- 4.5 General Characteristics of Political Capitalism -- 4.6 Market Capitalism and Great Demarcation -- 4.7 Varieties of Political Capitalism: The North American Case -- 4.8 Varieties of Political Capitalism: The Chinese Case -- 4.9 Varieties of Political Capitalism: The Natural Resource Curse -- 4.10 Islam and Capitalism -- 4.11 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Anfal and Islamic Economics -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Anfal in Koran and the Battle of Badr -- 5.3 Contradictory Verses on Anfal -- 5.4 Anfal and the Prophet’s Practices -- Lands and Properties of Banu al-Nadir -- Fadak -- 5.5 The Place of Anfal in the Islamic Public Finance -- 5.6 Examples and Definition of Anfal in the Shi’i Islam -- 5.7 Anfal and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Anfal and Article 45 -- Anfal and Article 44 -- 5.8 Anfal: The Missing Point in the Economic Literature -- 5.9 Shi’i Islam and Islamic Political Capitalism -- 5.10 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Anfal in Practice and Islamic Political Capitalism -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Institutional Complementarity and General Pattern of Anfal’s Progression -- 6.3 Phase 1: Anfal in Khomeini Era (1979–1989) -- 6.4 Holding Structure of BMJ and Islamic Charities -- 6.5 Anfal and Islamic ‘Welfare State’ -- 6.6 Anfal’s Progression in its First Phase and Islamic Banks -- 6.7 Phase 2: Anfal and the Transition Period (1989–2005) -- 6.8 Setad: The Extension of Anfal and Establishment of a New Giant Holding -- 6.9 Anfal’s Progression in its Second Phase and Islamic Banks -- 6.10 Alliance of Anfal and Sepah -- 6.11 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Privatization Decree: Liberalization or Islamization? -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Privatization Background Under Rafsanjani and Khatami -- 7.3 Khamenei’s Privatization Decree: Objectives, Process, and Outcomes -- 7.4 Confusing Definitions of Non-state Public Sector -- 7.5 Privatization Decree and the Third Phase of Anfal’s Progression (2006–Now) -- 7.6 Anfal and Authoritative Coordination -- 7.7 Anfal and Market Coordination -- 7.8 Anfal and Cooperative Coordination -- 7.9 Anfal and Destructive Coordination -- 7.10 Conclusion -- References -- 8 Islamic Political Capitalism and Economics of Predation -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Economic and Booty Value of an Asset -- 8.3 Oil as a Mixed (Pure) Captive Asset -- 8.4 Complementarity between Predation and Production: The Shah’s Political Capitalism -- 8.5 Predation Versus Production: Islamic Political Capitalism -- 8.6 Capital and Labor Flight as a Typical Economic Behavior -- 8.7 Economics of Hoarding -- 8.8 Anfal and Ecological Disaster -- 8.9 Conclusion -- References -- 9 Epilogue -- References -- References.