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Making Capitalism Great Again? A Critique of the “Rentier Takeover” Thesis

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  • Can you please let me know how often I should post such that I am neither terminally online nor suspiciously off-line?

    • Making Capitalism Great Again? A Critique of the “Rentier Takeover” Thesis

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  • It's strange to me that being responsive to questions, regardless of the amount of social clout someone has, is somehow spun as a bad characteristic about Roderic here.

    • Making Capitalism Great Again? A Critique of the “Rentier Takeover” Thesis

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    • Making Capitalism Great Again? A Critique of the “Rentier Takeover” Thesis

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  • Just a quick correction, this isn't written by Day. As noted in the forward, it is by JW Mason:

    J. W. Mason is Associate Professor of economics at John Jay College, CUNY and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.

    • How can we answer the question "China is revisionist because of billionaires in the party?"

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  • Maybe you find this essay has some useful ways to think about it: https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/

    It quotes from mainstream media sources to support the charge that the communist party keeps their reins on the billionaires in a way that just doesn't happen in capitalist countries, with an eye towards long term goals.