Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; ʿAlāʾ-ad-Dīnī, Pūyā; … - 2017 - This version: 11 Nov. 2017
This study probes the middle class in Iran in relation to oil rents and political development. We begin by discussing how the Iranian middle class has evolved through the 1979 Revolution and in the post-revolutionary period. We then empirically examine the relationships among per capita oil-rent...