New Frontiers of Techno-Economic Rentiership in Competition & Change
“In this guest introduction, we explore emerging critiques at the frontiers of techno-economic rentiership. Rentiership is a process entailing political-economic and technological (i.e. techno-economic) relations, formations, practices, and justifications underpinning the ownership and/or control of assets, which enable the capture of future revenue streams (i.e. what we call rents). Conceptually, in this context, rentiership permits us to analyse the increasingly diverse techno-economic dimensions of those future revenue streams, rather than being a normative term for identifying ‘good’ or ‘bad’ forms of revenue (i.e. profit vs. rent)….”
- ‘Introduction’ by Kean Birch, Callum Ward, Eliot Tretter
- ‘Intellectual property, technorents and the labour share of production’ by Herman M Schwartz
- ‘Amazon: A story of accumulation through intellectual rentiership and predation’ by Cecilia Rikap
- ‘The moral economy of the algorithmic crowd: Possessive collectivisim and techno-economic rentiership’ by Mark Kear
- ‘Land grabbing or value grabbing? Land rent and wind energy in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca’ by Lourdes Alonso Serna