Matthew Costa is an Australian political economist. He has been a sessional lecturer and honorary associate in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Alongside his academic work, he has served in economic and advisory roles in the Australian public sector for over a decade. He is currently a Director at New South Wales Treasury, and was previously an economic policy advisor in Australia's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He lives in New South Wales.Matthew Costa is an Australian political economist. He has been a sessional lecturer and honorary associate in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Alongside his academic work, he has served in economic and advisory roles in the Australian public sector for over a decade. He is currently a Director at New South Wales Treasury, and was previously an economic policy advisor in Australia's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He lives in New South Wales.

'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'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Rent and the engine of history2. The tributary rent relation 3. Tributary tendencies and contradictions 4. Tributary ideology, resistance, and critique5. From tributary to capitalist rent 6. Resistance and critique in transition7. The political economy of capitalist rent8. Resistance to rent under capitalism9. The critical social theorists 10. The critique of differential rent 11. Capitalist rent as proletarianization 12. Rent and capitalist domination 13. The ideology of capitalist rent14. Proletarian imaginaries 15. DeproletarianizationConclusion: Capital, mother of what?NotesIndex

Matthew Costa is an Australian political economist. He has been a sessional lecturer and honorary associate in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Alongside his academic work, he has served in economic and advisory roles in the Australian public sector for over a decade. He is currently a Director at New South Wales Treasury, and was previously an economic policy advisor in Australia's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He lives in New South Wales.Matthew Costa is an Australian political economist. He has been a sessional lecturer and honorary associate in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Alongside his academic work, he has served in economic and advisory roles in the Australian public sector for over a decade. He is currently a Director at New South Wales Treasury, and was previously an economic policy advisor in Australia's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He lives in New South Wales.

'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'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Rent and the engine of history2. The tributary rent relation 3. Tributary tendencies and contradictions 4. Tributary ideology, resistance, and critique5. From tributary to capitalist rent 6. Resistance and critique in transition7. The political economy of capitalist rent8. Resistance to rent under capitalism9. The critical social theorists 10. The critique of differential rent 11. Capitalist rent as proletarianization 12. Rent and capitalist domination 13. The ideology of capitalist rent14. Proletarian imaginaries 15. DeproletarianizationConclusion: Capital, mother of what?NotesIndex

Matthew Costa is an Australian political economist. He has been a sessional lecturer and honorary associate in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Alongside his academic work, he has served in economic and advisory roles in the Australian public sector for over a decade. He is currently a Director at New South Wales Treasury, and was previously an economic policy advisor in Australia's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He lives in New South Wales.Matthew Costa is an Australian political economist. He has been a sessional lecturer and honorary associate in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Alongside his academic work, he has served in economic and advisory roles in the Australian public sector for over a decade. He is currently a Director at New South Wales Treasury, and was previously an economic policy advisor in Australia's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He lives in New South Wales.

'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'

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Rent and the engine of history2. The tributary rent relation 3. Tributary tendencies and contradictions 4. Tributary ideology, resistance, and critique5. From tributary to capitalist rent 6. Resistance and critique in transition7. The political economy of capitalist rent8. Resistance to rent under capitalism9. The critical social theorists 10. The critique of differential rent 11. Capitalist rent as proletarianization 12. Rent and capitalist domination 13. The ideology of capitalist rent14. Proletarian imaginaries 15. DeproletarianizationConclusion: Capital, mother of what?NotesIndex