Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 PhD Student, Department of Sociology Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The present study aims to identify the factors effective in the non-realization of development in the post-Islamic revolution era. It is qualitative-descriptive research with a developmental approach in terms of objectives. the statistical population includes the elites and experts in the fields of economy, sociology of economy and development as well as those involved in the country's economic development. Using the purposive sampling method, 15 participants in the statistical population were interviewed. The thematic analysis was used to analyze the data obtained from the interviews. The findings indicate that from the interviewees’ perspective, lack of attraction of foreign capital, capital flight, brain drain, lack of a national consensus on development, emphasis on ideology instead of nationalism, the existence of rentier rule, and lack of attention paid to political freedoms are considered as the most important factors affecting the failure to achieve an optimal level of production and welfare in the period after the Islamic Revolution. In addition, from the viewpoint of the experts, the high volume of liquidity, the increase in exchange rates, the instability of monetary policies, the high-interest rates, and the bankruptcy of banks are considered as the consequences of wrong monetary and price policies which affect economic growth. Also, based on the results, the ill-conceived interventions of the government in the issue of currency, insistence on mandatory pricing by the government, lack of a real system of division of duties in the government structure, unfair tax system, size of the government, high government expenditures,.
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