{"id":2928,"date":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2020-06-12T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T17:04:08","slug":"fariborz-raisdana-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"Fariborz Raisdana, economist"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fariborz Raisdana –an Iranian economist, socialist, activist, professor, and a member of the Iranian Writers' Association – succumbed to Covid-19 on 16 March 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n\r\n

Raisdana graduated from The London School of Economics. He was the author of numerous articles and books, including Applied Development Economics; Money and Inflation; Political Economy of Development, and Globalization.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n\r\n

Raisdana was arrested on March 21, 2012 in Tehran after criticizing the Iranian subsidy reform plan in an interview with BBC Persian and given a one-year sentence at Evin Prison, for a series of charges including "membership in the Writer's Association, preparing seditious announcements against the regime, giving interviews to BBC and VOA, and accusing the Islamic Republic of abusing prisoners and holding show trials". Individuals and associations such as the Iranian Writers' Association, The Middle East Economic Association, and The Workers' Rights Defenders spoke out against his arrest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n\r\n

Raisdana died on March 16, 2020 because of COVID-19 complications in Tehran Pars hospital. He had been in the hospital for the past six days.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

<\/p>\n \n \n

<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fariborz Raisdana –an Iranian economist, socialist, activist, professor, and a member of the Iranian Writers' Association – succumbed to Covid-19 on 16 March 2020.   Raisdana graduated from The London School of Economics. He was the author of numerous articles and books, including Applied Development Economics; Money and Inflation; Political Economy of Development, and Globalization. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[46,7019],"tags":[4181,4179,4180],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Fariborz_Raisdana.jfif","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2850,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2850","url_meta":{"origin":2928,"position":0},"title":"Dr Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani, physician & politician","date":"March 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani \u2013an Iranian physician and reformist politician \u2013 succumbed to Covid-19 on 9 March 2020. From 1984 to 2000, he represented Sabzevar in the Iranian Parliament. During the early 2000s, he headed Iran's State Welfare Organization. Rahchamani was born in 1952 in Sabzevar and studied medicine. There is no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Iran"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3434,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3434","url_meta":{"origin":2928,"position":1},"title":"Peter J. N. Sinclair, economist","date":"April 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Peter James Niven Sinclair, a British economist, passed away on 31 March 2020 after contracting Covid-19. \u00a0 He was Professor, and subsequently Emeritus Professor, in Economics at the University of Birmingham. Previously, he had been a fellow and tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford. \u00a0 Sinclair grew up in London and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "High Profilers"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8724,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=8724","url_meta":{"origin":2928,"position":2},"title":"Thandika Mkandawire, economist","date":"March 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Thandika Mkandawire \u2011 a Malawian economist and public intellectual who was a Chair of African Development and professor of African Development at the London School of Economics \u2013 died from Covid-19 on 27 March 2020. He is a widely published scholar on the social sciences in Africa. His research focused\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Malawi"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2862,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2862","url_meta":{"origin":2928,"position":3},"title":"Mohammad Kiavash, politician","date":"March 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Iranian politician Mohammad Alavi Tabar\u200e, also known as Kiyavash\u2013 died on 10 March 2020. The Iranian politician was born in 1930 in Zanjan. He was a follower of jurisprudential Islam. Mohammad Alavi Tabar served as a member of the Iranian Parliament representing Ahvaz between 1980 and 1984, representing Abadan between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "High Profilers"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2838,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2838","url_meta":{"origin":2928,"position":4},"title":"Fatemeh Rahbar, politician","date":"March 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Fatemeh Rahbar \u2013an Iranian conservative politician who served three terms as a member of the Iranian Parliament representing Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr \u2013 succumbed to Covid-19 on 7 March 2020. Rahbar was elected to serve in the Parliament for the fourth time but died before the start of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "High Profilers"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2820,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2820","url_meta":{"origin":2928,"position":5},"title":"Hossein Sheikholeslam, politician & diplomat","date":"March 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Hossein Sheikholeslam \u2013an Iranian conservative politician and diplomat who was advisor to the foreign minister Javad Zarif \u2013 died on 5 March 2020 from coronavirus. He also was a member of the Seventh Islamic Parliament of Iran and previously the Iranian ambassador to Syria. Sheikholeslam was Assistant to the parliament\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "High Profilers"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}