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5 May 2014, 7:34 am
As has been widely reported, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Centuryextensively discusses the novels of Balzac and Jane Austen, as illustrations of what a rentier society looks like, with labor income mattering far less than inheriting capital or else acquiring it by marriage.The natural question for me was: What about Wodehouse? [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 4:20 pm
., huge landholdings, a rentier class, a population decentralized and unsophisticated, if not downright ignorant. [read post]
29 Aug 2016, 10:22 am
Disconnected: Rentier Intellectuals in E.M. [read post]
4 May 2020, 6:47 am
For example, he views Goriot as showing that early nineteenth century France was a pure rentier society, in which only inherited capital mattered—not what one achieved personally. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 1:03 pm
It taxes some labor income more favorably than other kinds, while also favoring rentiers (in the House bill) so long as they own businesses rather than owning financial interests in businesses that yield nonbusiness interest and dividends. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 6:45 am
But that is more a matter of some people who could earn high incomes choosing a career less remunerative but more productive of nonpecuniary income. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 8:21 am
[edited to correct typos] A story in the Boston Globe by Britt Peterson on Feb. 19, 2012 explored "Why it matters that our politicians are rich" (available here on Boston.com). [read post]
21 Jun 2013, 3:12 pm
Two items caught my attention in today's newspapers and they represent diametrically opposed positions on what matters in society. [read post]
2 Nov 2017, 10:17 am
They are as a practical matter encouraged, although not required, to keep records establishing their hours spent. [read post]
15 Mar 2021, 5:01 am
Since then, scholars have asked what it means that no monarch was overthrown and whether Arab monarchy matters to the outcome of regime survival. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 12:01 pm
Also, I thought he got Balzac a bit wrong, by describing the likes of Le Père Goriot as accounts of a “rentier society” in which nothing matters but your inherited wealth, whereas Eugène de Rastignac, the novel’s hero or antihero, is the preeminent arriviste – rising through the judicious use of his talents, such as they are – in all of French literature. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 10:48 am
Two examples--the right's push to "drill, baby, drill" with the claim that a trickle more of US oil will dent world prices (nope); and the right's push for the Keystone Pipeline no matter what the cost in aquifers or natural environments, even though the benefits are likely to be miniscule (VERY few jobs; no real impact on world energy prices). [read post]
4 Apr 2015, 1:06 pm
But, at age 17, I didn't even consider going to talk to Hunt, or for that matter to Scanlon.I decided I had to prove myself, to myself, academically. [read post]
26 Jul 2013, 9:29 am
It has allowed Big Banks and Big Insurance companies to reap "rentier" profits from municipal necessities and personal health care needs, all in the name of claiming to support personal freedom. [read post]
14 Aug 2011, 7:19 pm
But there are also a lot of people I think we’d all acknowledge are merely lucky, passive rentiers, expert exploiters of contacts and connections, and blatant copiers of value-draining business strategies (like pollution, tax arbitrage, evasion of labor and health standards, etc.). [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 11:23 am
" Business can't fix the crisis alone, because business as usual has become too short-sighted and too intent on rentier profits. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 7:16 am
Until that cultural style decays, there’s little hope for positive political change in the US, no matter how institutions evolve. [read post]
25 Oct 2012, 12:45 pm
The looming matters range from general matters that affect all private equity firms--such as tax changes or the new rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill--to more specific concerns relating to businesses owned or controlled by Solamere's partner firms. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 8:05 am
Put enough rich country taxpayer money on the table and even the most corrupt and shortsighted rentier regimes in the developing world will experience an extraordinary upsurge in green conviction. [read post]
28 Nov 2015, 4:50 am
But it was only a matter of time before ISIS would attempt to coordinate attacks outside its territory. [read post]
