What’s wrong with rent and the rentier?

Brett Christophers | December 30, 2019

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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Getting to the bottom of this ‘shitty rent business’…

Joe Collins | February 15, 2017

The rent-seeking argument emerging out of the progressive side of the mainstream economics community runs something like this: the top 1% are socially unproductive and receive obscene amounts of money by securing themselves into positions of ownership that permit them to misappropriate [...]

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