Mehrdad Vahabi

Mehrdad Vahabi (; born 1963) is an Iranian professor of Economics at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (Paris) and director of Centre d'Economie Paris Nord-CEPN.

Biography Vahabi was born in 1963 in Tehran. He completed his higher education first in the United States and then in France. In 1981 he received his Bachelor from University of Chicago, and then in October 1993 he received his PhD in Economics from Paris 7 University on La pensée économique de János Kornai (1955-1984) : de la réforme de l'économie socialiste à la théorie de l'économie de pénurie. After that he received his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from Université Paris 1 on Les modes de coordination et les institutions: vers une approche dynamique. He is currently a professor of Economics in Sorbonne Paris North University (Paris 13) and the director of Centre d'Economie Paris Nord-CEPN, an affiliation of French National Centre for Scientific Research.

Works In his book The Political Economy of Predation (2016), which stands at the crossroad of Public Choice and New institutional Economics, Vahabi relies on the concept of predation to revisit the analysis of the genesis of the state, states conflict and the transition from autocracy to democracy.

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