Brett Christophers
Autor de Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
Sobre El Autor
Brett Christophers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala-University, Sweden.
Créditos de la imagen: from Uppsala University faculty page
Obras de Brett Christophers
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Christophers, Brett
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1971
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Croydon, England, UK
- Educación
- University of Auckland, New Zealand (PhD)
University of British Columbia (MA)
University of Oxford (BA) - Ocupaciones
- Social and Economic Geography Professor, University of Uppsala
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 138
- Popularidad
- #148,171
- Valoración
- 4.8
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 32
The book clearly and systematically shows how British governments of the right and nominal left, have been selling the family silver for a quick buck and ruining the balance of the country. I am always bemused by the theory that someone 'owns' land. Polanyi came up with the term 'false commodity' to refer to land: how can something have a value without added labour? Land as a commodity has always been a no no for me; it was interesting to learn that this is not just a fellow traveller's view point.
Now, we just need to convince 60 million forelock tugging Brits that it's wrong...… (más)