Ash Navabi, a good friend who was born in Iran and holds twin Iranian and Canadian citizenship, despatched me a present a number of weeks in the past. It is pictured above. That is the Iranian model of my Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.

Right here is the story he instructed me. This summer time, he traveled to Mashhad, Iran. It’s the second most populous metropolis in Iran, with a inhabitants of round 3 million. He got here throughout a small bookstore.

Let Ash say it:

I requested the employees if there was a saving part, and to my shock they did. Of the roughly 30 books within the part, I observed 2 by one [here he spells out my name in Farsi]–“David Henderson!”

In brief, this can be a copy of your concise encyclopedia, translated into Persian. The primary web page signifies that that is truly the second printing of the ebook, from 2018, with 500 copies. I purchased it on the sale value of 155,000 tomans, which is about 5 {dollars}.

I instructed Ash that since 2008 I’ve bought rights to translate into totally different languages ​​however, until my reminiscence is dangerous, I had not bought rights to translate into Persian. [My records on sale of rights, and this is uncharacteristic of me, are not good.] If I keep in mind appropriately, it is a pirated copy. However I am not indignant. The Iranian economic system wants all the great financial pondering it could possibly get.