Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?Book
by Brett Christophers, 2020
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Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and author of GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History.
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This is really about the way that, in lots of different areas of the economy, there is a concentration of power by people who have bought particular kinds of assets, and they're extracting monopoly rents—in effect—through that ownership. It covers land, housing, private equity, and infrastructure ownership.
Five Books interview on the best economics books of 2020
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