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Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capitalism, and insist they can be eliminated with the right policies. It begs the question, why is rent theory so critical of the present but so optimistic about the future? In Mother of Capital, Matthew Costa delves into the intellectual and social history of rent to solve this puzzle. Centring rent as the engine of capitalism's historical emergence in medieval Europe, he offers a groundbreaking, systematic history of rent and rent theory. The book also traces the history of resistance to rent from below, and unearths a neglected body of critical rent theory. Weaving complex strands of social and intellectual history into a vivid, lively, and original explanation of how the society we live in came to be, Costa makes a bold intervention into contemporary debates about the origins and future of capitalism, the nature of social change, and of history itself.
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Keywords
- Accumulation by dispossession
- Birth of capitalism
- Books on rent
- Capitalism and the state
- Capitalism vs feudalism
- Capitalism’s future
- Capitalist transition
- class struggle
- Critique of political economy
- Economic history
- Economic history of England
- Economic rent
- economic theory
- Engine of history
- Feudal Britain
- Future of capitalism
- Global proletariat
- Heterodox Economics
- Historical materialism
- Historical sociology
- history of capitalism
- History of capitalist economics
- History of rent
- History of Renting
- land politics
- Marxist Theory
- neo-feudalism
- Origins of capitalism
- peasant studies
- Political Economy
- Postcapitalism
- primitive accumulation
- Private Rent
- Private renting
- Proletarianization
- Radical economic thought
- Rent
- Rent strikes
- Rent theory
- renters
- Rentier capitalism
- Resistance to rent
- Subaltern movements
- subaltern studies
- Techno-feudalism
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- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCS Economic systems and structures::KCSA Capitalism
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages
- Theory of Rent
- Transition debates
- Transition from feudalism to capitalism
- Uneven development
- Wage labour
- World history
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