Recent work on rent and rentierism has offered a distinctive and fresh approach to understanding and explaining contemporary capitalism. It will be the first book of its kind to offer a global account of rentier capitalism.

Balihar Sanghera is Reader in Sociology at the University of Kent. His research has focused on class, morality and rentier capitalism in Central Asia. He has published in leading journals, including the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Capital and Class, Theory and Society, International Sociology and The Sociological Review. He is a co-author with Elmira Satybaldieva of Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and co-editor with Gideon Calder of Ethics, Economy and Social Science: Dialogues with Andrew Sayer (Routledge, 2022).

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 Régulation 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