In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-twenty-first-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as ‘rentier capitalism’, in which ownership of key types of scarce assets - such as land, intellectual...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Influences, Approaches, and Arguments -- 1. Competition under Capitalism -- 2. Exchanging Production for Markets -- 3. Law as Leveler -- 4. Designs on Monopoly -- 5. The Revival of Competition -- 6. Remaking Monopoly for the Twenty-First Century -- Coda:...