Brett Christophers

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Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?Hardcover, 24 November 2020

Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
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Print Length
512 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Verso
Date Published
24 Nov 2020
ISBN-10
1788739728
ISBN-13
9781788739726

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How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality?

In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-twenty-first-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as 'rentier capitalism', in which ownership of key types of scarce assets--such as land, intellectual property, natural resources, or digital platforms--is all-important and dominated by a few unfathomably wealthy companies and individuals: rentiers.

If a small elite owns today's economy, everybody else foots the bill. Nowhere is this divergence starker, Christophers shows, than in the United Kingdom, where the prototypical ills of rentier capitalism--vast inequalities combined with entrenched economic stagnation--are on full display and have led the country inexorably to the precipice of Brexit.

With profound lessons for other countries subject to rentier dominance, Christophers' examination of the UK case is indispensable to those wanting not just to understand this insidious economic phenomenon but to overcome it.

Frequently invoked but never previously analysed and illuminated in all its depth and variety, rentier capitalism is here laid bare for the first time.

Product Details

Author:
Brett Christophers
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
24 November 2020
Dimensions:
23.88 x 16.51 x 3.81 cm
ISBN-10:
1788739728
ISBN-13:
9781788739726
Language:
English
Pages:
512
Publisher:
Weight:
698.53 gm

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