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  "abstract": "This paper argues that the structural limitation of Iran's official statistical system — its near-exclusive focus on the state sector — is not merely a technical deficiency but an active accelerator of the \"Crisis+1\" mechanism introduced in The Petro-Dopamine Loop framework (Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18740893). Because formal statistics systematically capture treasury allocations, registered public employment, and budgetary accounting entries while remaining blind to the informal economy — estimated at roughly 31% of Iran's GDP and about 35% of the GDP of its major metropolitan economies — policymakers respond to fiscal disturbances with emergency reprioritization based on a systematically distorted picture of reality. The unobserved feedback from households, small contractors, and informal workers accumulates as hidden fiscal and social liabilities that erupt at $t+1$ as renewed, and typically more severe, emergency demands. We formalize this as a sub-hypothesis of the Crisis+1 framework and propose measurement strategies for the treasury-based empirical design.",
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      "name": "Hamidreza Safari"
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      "name": "hamidreza safari ORCID(0009-0008-4424-9694)"
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  "published": "2026-10-26",
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  "title": "Statistical Blindness as a Crisis Accelerator: State-Centric Data, Informality, and the Crisis+1 Mechanism in Iran's Political Economy",
  "title_text": "Statistical Blindness as a Crisis Accelerator: State-Centric Data, Informality, and the Crisis+1 Mechanism in Iran's Political Economy",
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