About Hossein Mahdavy
Hossein Mahdavy was an economist.
Hossein Mahdavy is an Iranian economist and political scientist known for rentier state theory. 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.
He studied at Oxford and Harvard Universities.
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