Rentier CapitalismBrett Christophers
Rentier Capitalism
by Brett Christophers · first published 2020
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The United Kingdom of Rentierism In this landmark book, the author of the acclaimed The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination of capitalism as it increasingly exists today in the 'advanced' economies of the Global North. Dominated by institutions and individuals profiting from the control of scarce, revenue-generating assets, Brett Christophers styles this contemporary socioeconomic system 'rentier capitalism', and he critically dissects its emergence, forms and implications. The empirical focus of Rentier Capitalism's critique is the United Kingdom, a country and political economy tha
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…Century". Since then, a huge amount of research has been done on the driving forces behind wealth inequality. Skimming the surface, I'll throw out https://angrynomics.com/ and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rentier-Capitalism-Owns-Economy-Pay....
on “America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%” ↗…Ronald Reagan and every subsequent government since. Neoliberalism. The rest of the Anglosphere followed suit. It (Neoliberalism) was supposed to re-energize American Capitalism. Instead it gave birth to Rentier-Capitalism. See Brett Christophers for a more detailed analysis.
on “From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media” ↗…most advanced sectors of the digital economy, where the left’s brightest minds still find themselves very much in the dark. Are Google and Amazon capitalists? Are they rentiers, as Brett Christophers’s Rentier Capitalism suggests? What about Uber? Is it just an intermediary, a rent-taking platform that has inserted itself between drivers and passengers? Or is it producing and selling a transportation service? These questions…
on “Technofeudalism” ↗