General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Direction of monetary-base expansion decisions relative to trend. Separate from fiscal.transfer_expansion even when correlated.
Post-oil-shock Shah ordered the Fifth Plan (1973-78) doubled from $36bn to $69bn mid-cycle. Massive industrial imports, military orders (F-14s, destroyers), nuclear programme launch, university expansion. Absorption bottlenecks (ports clogged with imports queueing 6+ months) produced runaway inflation and resource misallocation contributing to the pre-revolutionary crisis.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.