“Destructive Coordination, Anfal, Islamic Political Capitalism: A New Reading of Contemporary Iran” is the title of a book that was published at the beginning of 2023 (December 1401) in English by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer) in nearly five hundred pages. The main message of this book is to characterize the political economy of the Islamic Republic as Islamic political capitalism. This book introduces a new theoretical framework that examines Iran in relation to the theological concept of Anfal, a confiscatory regime seen in Iran since 1979 where public assets belong to the leader of Iran. Through analysing the economic impacts of Anfal, the effects of political capitalism and destructive coordination and how they lead to the economics of hoarding and the flight of capital and labour are highlighted. The economics of predation, ecological disaster, and cooperative coordination are also discussed.
