Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

Pathology of production and productive economic culture in development plans: A case study of seventh development plan

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

F. Sorkheh Dehi 1
A. Ashtari Mehrjardi 2

1 Assistant Professor of Economic Planning and Development, Faculty of Economics, Department of Economics, Allame Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Social Development, Department of Science and Technology, Institute for Cultural, Social and Civilization Studies, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22035/isih.2023.4615.4561
Abstract
Despite a long history of planning, Iran still faces many economic and social problems. For instance, production as the most important pillar of industrial development encounters with enormous challenges. The main question is what are the problems and disadvantages of development programs in the economic and cultural fields, to support production and productive activities and industrial development? To respond, the analytical-descriptive method and content analysis in the framework of theoretical foundations of the institutionalist economics approach have been used. A review of development programs shows that most of the production protection laws in development programs deal with financial ones, but the production sector still faces problems despite financial support. The results indicate that the lack of clear industrial development strategy, the lack of attention to anti-production economic culture, the lack of identification of productive activities, attractiveness of investing in unproductive activities, the lack of appropriate tax policies, the lack of access to all bank accounts and transparency, unstable macroeconomic environment and insecurity of property rights are the most important problems of production and have caused financial protections to lead to unproductive rants and increased rant seeking. Another important but neglected issue in development planning is the lack of strategy for the transformation of economic culture and the mood of society on the path of industrial production and development. Neglecting this important issue has increased distrust and reduced social capital and anti-production culture.

Keywords

industrial development
productive activities
Schumpeter Rant
cultural transformation

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