One of the continual crises that contemporary Iranian governments have often faced due to the inefficiency of their economic policies, and the economic behavior of the society has been overshadowed by it, is high and fluctuating inflation as a disproportionate growth in the prices of goods and services. However, the response of Iranian statesmen to the increase in the inflation rate as an economic issue has often been to emphasize their authoritative function and mandated stabilization of the prices of goods and services. Such an approach has been associated with irreparable consequences for the economic structure and the political legitimacy of governments and policymakers due to the deviation from the mechanism of the competitive free market and the principle of private ownership, in addition to aggravating the inflation crisis. The adoption of price control policy by government officials as a relatively stable political procedure during the contemporary era did not appear suddenly and out of nowhere, but it is rooted in the value traditions and structural systems of Iran. In this research, using the historical method, an attempt is made to identify the root of state-oriented authority(referent) in the historical context, based on Pierre Müller's Authority(Referent) theory and James Anderson's Context-Cognitive framework, which are among the interpretive approaches based on limited rationality. And its effects on the formation and reproduction of the economic policy of prescriptive (government) pricing in the contemporary era of Iran (Pahlavi II period and Islamic Republic) should be investigated and explained in form of a historical process.