A recent book contributing to the discourse on rent offers a map to those who would brave the chaos of the past and present of rent theory. This humble intervention, conveniently titled Rent, is as compelling as it is concise, which this blog post summarises.
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In April, the School of Social and Political Sciences, in collaboration with the Justice and Inequality research priority of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will be hosting Mike Savage, Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has a longstanding interest in the social and historical sources of inequality, within and across nations. From 2015 to 2020 Mike was Director of the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute, and his most recent book is The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past (Harvard University Press, 2021), praised by Thomas Piketty as a “major sociological contribution to the ongoing global debate on inequality and the return of social class”.
In New York, the real estate industry and the politicians in its pocket both reign supreme. These tenants have a plan to change that forever.
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