#103 Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? w/ Brett Christophers
Added 2020-11-26 08:32:29 +0000 UTCBrett Christophers joins PTO to talked about his new book, Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? We chatted about the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy, why the concept of rentierisation is more useful and accurate than the notion of financialisation when talking about the trajectory of the UK and world economies, and we also talked about how and why entrepreneurialism and competitiveness are values that are taken up far more by ordinary people in the labour market than by UK business.
Comments
Loved this episode. I used to live close to the Crystal Palace transmitter until 2002 and colour me surprised that it is now owned mostly by Canadian and Australian investors.
Paul Brewer
2021-07-21 20:05:39 +0000 UTCGreat conversation - as an outraged Thames Water abductee, and a dedicated enemy of G4S and other such abusers of the commonweal, I definitely must read Christophers' book. Thanks.
Alan Keenan
2020-11-30 02:30:01 +0000 UTCI loved that book it was brilliant
Mohammed Mumit
2020-11-28 13:28:59 +0000 UTCI used to think rentiers were the lazy people who didn't work in Proust until I discovered the Politics Theory Other podcast.
Jane Pickering
2020-11-27 14:47:46 +0000 UTCThanks Alex. This book is waiting on my kindle. Sounds a pretty compelling analysis in the Australian setting - particularly in terms of privatised electricity generation & coal mining tie ins. We've even got freshly minted billionaire entrepreneurs leading the fight against the rentiers.
Chris Burns
2020-11-26 10:11:21 +0000 UTC
