Politics Theory Other #103 Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy

Brett Christophers on the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy and why the concept of rentierisation is more useful and accurate than the notion of financialisation when talking about the trajectory of the UK and world economies, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast. 

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Rentier Capitalism

by Brett Christophers

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 cap...