The Elements of Economic Decision-Making System in Islamic-Iraninan Progress Plan

Of the most important challenges in designing, constructing and implementing Islamic-Iranian Pattern of Progress (IIPP), is recognition of problems and challenges of Iranian economy. This can be the starting point of socio-economic movement of Iranian society in the way of IIPP. Recognizing these problems and challenges is helpful when it is based on a theoretical framework and methodology extracted from the context of IIPP. In fact, identifying economic problems is preceded by a scientific theory about Islamic progress.
Relying on Structural Justice as the basic theory of IIPP, it is aimed in this paper to introduce the methodology of extracting economic problems and challenges. So, in accordance with the SJ theory on necessity of balanced growth, the economic problems and challenged must be recognized from the standpoint of unbalancements and monopolies. In this regard, we have reached to three structural challenges in Iranian economy as to say: (i) banking system (unbalancement in creation and distribution of money); (ii) land and construction (unbalancement in circulation of capital in private sector); and (iii) oil and gas (unbalancement in acquiring and distribution of natural resources). In conclusion, it is emphasized that any strategy of moving toward Islamic-Iranian Progress rests on removing or at least alleviation of these unbalancements in Iranian economy.