Hossein Mahdavy is an Iranian economist and political scientist known for rentier state theory.Interview with William Green Miller The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project 2005. Retrieved 29 March 2023 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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