The new Iranian constitution, however, outlined an economy controlled largely by the state, partly by coöperatives owned by the public, and marginally by a private sector that would include the traditional merchant class of the bazaar.
They did not enter politics to prove they could stick to Tory spending plans: they were there to build a public sector that would have made Labour's early dreamers proud.
This is a far cry from the picture often portrayed by industry advocates of an imperiled sector that would be pushed over the brink by price controls in developing countries.
After Lenin died, Stalin joined Rykov in advocating an economic policy that encouraged the development of a prosperous agricultural sector that would finance gradual industrialization.
The UK consistently buys more than half of the country's exports, with certified schemes like Fairtrade helping to maintain a strong smallholder sector that would otherwise be unable to compete with large-scale plantation farms.
But others argue that officials had always intended to create a vibrant state sector that would tower above the private sector in important industries, even as they sold off or shut down money-losing state enterprises that drained capital from the government budget and banking system.
At Indian independence, Nehru helped shape an economy that was substantially modeled after the Soviet template: five-year plans, central planning and a dominant public sector that would assume — as Nehru, borrowing Lenin's phrase, put it — the "commanding heights" of the economy.
To have a robust public sector that would get the lead out of inner-city pipes, fix up dilapidated schools, increase the number of teachers, and provide free higher education for all requires the expansion of the public sector.
She cast a vision of a nascent social finance sector that would only continue to grow over the next 10 years, and described a burgeoning group of organisations out there who are helping to put budding social entrepreneurs — or for the purposes of this conversation, motivated public sector employees with an enthusiasm to spin out — in touch with the funding they need — not least Bridges themselves.
Although its use limits cross-country comparison in some ways, it can provide spending information for a specific service or sector that would otherwise not be estimated.
