The problem of rent is not that it is unearned. It is the rentier’s monopoly power.
Housing rent and the divisive issue of rent controls are once again at the forefront of political debate and struggle in the advanced capitalist territories. In the United States, for example, California [...]
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‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’: Problematising Property Financialisation
Masterclass with Rachel Weber (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Brett Christophers (Uppsala University)
In this seminar we discuss the burgeoning literature in geography and urban studies on the [...]
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When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was negotiated in 1947, it would have been essentially inconceivable to all those involved that when it was replaced by the World Trade Organization (WTO) 48 years later, the multilateral trading system constituted by the latter [...]
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In the last few years the heavyweights of Keynesian economics have rediscovered monopoly power and its alter ego, competition. Joseph Stiglitz has been talking about monopoly. So too has Paul Krugman. Noting that “we don’t talk much about monopoly power these days,” for instance, Krugman [...]
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