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Mother of Capital: How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity

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‘As some are pointing at rent to claim that we are moving out of capitalism and into “techno—feudalism”, it seems urgent to rethink the relation between capital and rent. In this inventive book, Costa takes us back into the womb of history to show that it was a transmutation of rent that gave birth to capital, and that the two never parted ways since then’ Xavier Lafrance, Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal

‘It is fantastic to see Matthew Costa’s book on the topic of rent theory, whi...