The Problem of Rent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13085540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brett Christophers (0000-0002-6245-7378, Uppsala University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 303-323 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2326-4462 • E-ISSN: 2326-4470 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/705396 |
| OpenAlex | W2990725599 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 10 |
With rentier dynamics playing an increasingly central role in the economy across much of the advanced capitalist world, critiques of rent, the rentier, and rentierism have been gathering a head of steam. For the majority of critics of rentierism, it appears that the central problem of rent, and the reason we should be critical of it, is that it represents “unearned” income. In this critical reflection, I question this critique and, in its place, advance an alternative conceptualization of the problem of rent, centered not on the degree to which rent is or is not “earned” but rather on the monopoly power that the rentier, by her nature, enjoys, and which, I argue, substantially accounts for two of rentier capitalism’s negative features: low levels of innovation and high levels of worker exploitation
Capitalism · Conceptualization · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Monopoly · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Rent-seeking · Economic Theory and Policy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
Residents Welfare Associations and the economic territorialization of recyclables collection markets in the Delhi metropolitan area
The Arab/Iranian Region and the Multipolar Dilemma
Rentiership and intellectual monopoly in contemporary capitalism
The rise of education rentiers
Property as power
The political aspects of “full housing”
The afterlife of living under contract, an epilogue
Securing the sea
What is rent
Class, Assets and Work in Rentier Capitalism
Leapfrog logistics
Making rent
The common production of economic advantages
Beyond parasitism
The reemergence of land contracts in Chicago
The Improvement Regime
Intellectual property rights and control in the digital economy
Knowledge/Seizure
Rent and the Critique of Capitalist Political Ecology
Making space for community energy
The Andrews government and the rise of Rentier capitalism in Victoria
Wealth and Class Analysis
State capacity and the 'value' of sustainable finance
The rentierization of the United Kingdom economy
The Digital Growth Machine
Turning land into capital? The expansion and extraction of value in Laos
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |