Rentier capitalism : who owns the economy, and who pays for it?
Christophers, Brett, 1971-2022
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How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality? The author of 'The New Enclosure' provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-21st-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.
Main title:
Rentier capitalism : who owns the economy, and who pays for it? / Brett Christophers.
Author:
Christophers, Brett, 1971-, author
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2022.
Collation:
512 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781788739757 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
91892
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