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Tagged: rentier capitalism

Opinion / Economics

December 5, 2025

 by Jaffa Levy

 by Jaffa Levy · Published December 5, 2025

Britain’s Productivity Collapse And The Rentier Trap Martin Wolf Will Not Name

Martin Wolf now concedes that Britain is stuck in a low productivity, high inequality trap that threatens democracy itself. Yet when the argument reaches the point where rentiers must actually be confronted and capital controlled, he retreats into the language of caution. This long read maps the gap between his diagnosis and the regime he still cannot bring himself to break.

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