Global Rentier Capitalism : Theory and Development (Hardcover)

Introduction?Part I: Historical lessons?1. Rival benchmarks for measuring rent: a history of incoherence and a solution for discussion?2.?Henry George, economic solutionalism and the reappearance of economic rent?3.?Grounding rent in value: considering the price of fungible rents for rentier capitalism studies?Part II:?Theoretical developments?4.Rentier regimes and the Regulation Theory: an overview?5.?Rentierism and speculation in a finance-led capitalism?6.?Big Tech: four emerging forms of digital rentiership?7.?Rentierism and the question of capitalist development?Part III: Studies of rentierism in the Global North?8.?Urban entrepreneurs as global rentiers: real estate clientelism and hegemony in Belgium and Spain?9.?Labour, labour law and capitalist rent-seeking: rentier capitalism and labour in historical perspective?10.?The labour economics of rents in the Global North?11.?US rentierism, hegemony and militarism: corporate harm and state violence??Part IV:?Studies of rentierism in the Global South?12.?Mozambique: turning a poor country into a rentier state?13.?Rentier capitalism and global economic imaginaries in Central Asia?14.?Rentier income and mass-based financialisation: the limits of redistributive policies during the Pink Tide in Brazil?15.?Surplus, rent, and unequal development: raw materials and remittances as the motor of rent societies in the Global South??16.?The rentier economies in Latin America?17.?Conclusion? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??