Douglas North's Development Autopsy with Critical Analysis of The Discourse of New Institutionalism: A Lesson for Iran

Douglas North's theory of social order is one of the newest theoretical approaches in the field of development. The purpose of this paper is to dissect development theory from North's point of view. Accordingly, third world societies must turn to "open access order" to achieve development. In addition, efficient institutions and governments, the way rents are rented and the containment of violence determines development. The approach of the present study is that the core of power plays a central role in development. In this model, to achieve development, not to model others, but to pay attention to the inside is emphasized and coalitions and productive rents and organizationism are emphasized. The aim of this study was to learn from the theory of North for development of Iran and finding efficient solutions to get out of the various challenges of system inefficiency. Social order theory was a successful theory in achieving development for some East Asian countries. The results of using descriptive-analytical method and the use of library resources in this study indicated that 1) having a native model, 2) the existence of democratic society and open system, 3) avoidance of personalism, 4) The existence of coalition and empathy, 5) the existence of rent relations of the type of productive rent, 6) attention to history and culture, 7) the rule of law and the strengthening of efficient property rights, and 8) strengthening and improving the functioning of the institution of the course government are important issues in achieving Iran's development.