LEARNING TO TAX: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE OPIUM TRADE IN IRAN, 1921–1941
通过考察礼萨·沙阿时期伊朗对鸦片贸易的政策，生动展示了国家如何发现经济和政治约束的过程，挑战了理性选择国家理论。
Rational-choice theories of the state have been used in attempts to explain how variations in policy result from differences in constraints. But these theories give little attention to how the state comes to know what the constraints are. This article provides a dramatic example of the process of discovering economic and political constraints by examining Iran's policies toward the opium trade during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi (1921–1941).