On Jun 21, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Michael McIntyre quoted:
> Mousavi's economic policy, on the other hand,
> has been shaped by a number of vocal critiques of
> privatization, and by economists who had clustered in the
> Institute of Religion and Economics. The core of their
> arguments about the economy is based on good governance,
> institution building, and maintaining sate enterprises for
> their employment generating role, while channeling surplus
> oil revenues to expand an independent private sector: A
> social democratic policy.
In his interview with me (which I'll be posting later today), Hamid Dabashi said that Mousavi is a "socialist through and through" - not a neoliberal at all.
Doug