A recent book contributing to the discourse on rent offers a map to those who would brave the chaos of the past and present of rent theory. This humble intervention, conveniently titled Rent, is as compelling as it is concise, which this blog post summarises.
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In April, the School of Social and Political Sciences, in collaboration with the Justice and Inequality research priority of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will be hosting Mike Savage, Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has [...]
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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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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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