Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality

Péter Mihályi is Professor in the Department of Macroeconomics, Corvinus University of Budapest, and Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Hungary. Iván Szelényi is William Graham Sumner Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Yale University, and Max Weber Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences, New York University, Abu Dhabi.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2: Rent in Classical Economic, Social and Political Theory.- Chapter 3: Thirteen Types of Rent in the Globalized World.- Chapter 4: Class Reproduction of the Upper Middle Class (Top 20%).- Chapter 5: Stages of Rent-Seeking Under Post-Communism.- Chapter 6:  Rent-Securing by the Nation-States and Rent Destruction by Globalization.- Chapter 7: Theoretical and Policy Conclusions.