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Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

Brett Christophers · 2020

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Diane Coyle recommends it
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.

on fivebooks.com · 13 Dec 2020

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

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