Overview
Presents Brazil as a case study of an emerging economy with cross-cutting political economic themes
Re-articulates the growing recognition of economic ills due to rent, marginality, and under-consumption
Explains how international organizations should change as a result of the emergence of new economies on order to foster a unified global economy
Speech format allows for a more direct, engaging and lively discussion between author and reader
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This is a conversational book with chapters directly followed by responses from experts. The main authors propose that the failure in development is not due to capitalism but rather rentism, which is earnings based on political rather market returns. Rent prevents development and ingrains social and economic inequalities. Using the case study of Brazil’s economic development, it is shown how development fails because policies Brazil and other low to middle-income countries promote do not overcome the main obstacle to development - rent. The overcoming of rent would occur within a model of globalisation whereby the advanced economics still prosper concurrently as the poorest countries grow, all underpinned by international organisations defending a rule-based globalisation.
Not Paying the Rent: Imagining a Fairer Capitalism presents a new application of the theory of rent, both historically in the case of Brazil, and in practical terms in tackling it through modern international organisations. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and general readers interested in inequality and development economics.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Neil Wilcock and Edgar Federzoni Dos Santos currently work as practitioners in different international organisations both focused on development and are both graduates of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies programme at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Not Paying the Rent
Book Subtitle: Imagining a Fairer Capitalism
Editors: Neil Wilcock, Edgar Federzoni dos Santos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78861-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78860-5Published: 21 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78863-6Published: 22 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78861-2Published: 20 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 192
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Development Economics, International Political Economy, Political Science, Development and Social Change