| 单词 | rentier |
| 例句 | Picture the scene: a hipster girl lures our enterprising rentier back to the loft space she shares with seven other precariously employed twenty-somethings, promising sex. Enough with the hipster-bashing 2013-05-12T14:00:00Z But it is also a brilliant portrayal of what's wrong with rentier capitalism. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Pinar Giritlioglu, the Istanbul head of the Chamber of City Planners, said: "Unfortunately, the rentier system instead of science continues to rule everything." Analysis: Hasty rebuild could leave Turkey at risk of another quake disaster 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The hosts, Sydney and Violet Schiff, British rentiers and patrons of the arts, pulled off a coup in a salon at the Hotel Majestic: They brought together five of the greatest artists of the era. When Picasso partied with Joyce and Stravinsky, things got surreal 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z "A significant minority of non-doms do appear to be the 'rentier rich'," the report said. One in five top UK bankers have gained from 'non-dom' tax status - study 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The high interest rates on bank deposits encouraged a rentier economy that disincentivized investment in industry and agriculture. How Corruption Ruined Lebanon 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Trump and his family are the embodiment of what the cool kids call “rentier capitalism.” Review | How Trump has turned the presidency into an arm of his own business 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z It would pick up the most populist pieces from his tax bill and build on them, finding ways to transfer tax advantages to working-class families and away from blue-state rentiers. Opinion | Win or Lose, Trump Will Hold Power Over the G.O.P. 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z After describing his multiple homes, his yacht, and his private plane, Hanauer argued that the U.S. was at risk of becoming a neo-feudalist rentier society similar to France before the Revolution. The Ultra-Wealthy Who Argue That They Should Be Paying Higher Taxes 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z While that may seem liberating and modern on the surface, it is not that liberating or modern when you realise it is just rentier capitalism 2.0. Silicon Valley’s answer to the housing crises? Charging $1,200 for a bunk bed in a shared house | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z You might call this business model shift “rentier creep”: the phenomenon by which services we formerly owned become rented, and things that once were bought outright become bought on credit. Pay us forever: Apple wants you to rent your life from them 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z “An ethical, sovereign and productive PDVSA. We must break this model of the rentier oil company.” Special Report: Oil output goes AWOL in Venezuela as soldiers run... 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The root of “gentrification” — “gentry” — can refer either to those of not-quite-aristocratic birth or to those who profit from land ownership; either to the well-off in general or to the rentier class in particular. When ‘Gentrification’ Isn’t About Housing 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Isn't it time we faced the fact that we have what the French call a rentier class in this country? U.S. Job Market’s Strength Is Allowing More to Share in Pay Gains 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z They both face notoriously rigid “rentier” social contracts typical of the Persian Gulf, in which citizens expect government positions in exchange for their acceptance of the authoritarian status quo. Perspective | Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wants to reengineer his country. Is that even possible? 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The term rentier society refers to an economic model of this design, and it has its origins in the early history of the United States, which was characterized by a slowly financializing economy. Pay us forever: Apple wants you to rent your life from them 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z It is exactly the "rentier" mentality that has destroyed the prospects for a healthy growing economy built on investment in productive means. How Tales of ‘Flippers’ Led to a Housing Bubble 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z In essence, cyber-insurance – like any other form of insurance – is a domain of rentiers who are keen to extract a regular premium payment from those needing their services. Cyber-insecurity is a gift for hackers, but it’s our own governments that create it | Evgeny Morozov 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Housing is not really about housing workers, but about creating some kind of financial chicanery for rentier speculators. The Overinflated Fear of Being Priced Out of Housing 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Entrepreneurs sought social acceptance by passing themselves off as rentiers. Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The biggest fear of rentier world, though, comes if the tech industry continues to consolidate — if there becomes no alternative to rentier society, and a few trillion-dollar companies control our lives. Pay us forever: Apple wants you to rent your life from them 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Saddam found himself in a similar position during the sanctions and substituted rentier with savagery.” 'More dangerous than Isis': power cuts leave Iraqis boiling with rage 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Just as important is the code brought in last year for pension funds and other institutional investors, which aims to transform them from supine rentiers into responsible stewards. Winds of change 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z But his observation that it is homeowners in particular, rather than rentiers generally, who are grabbing a larger share of the pie is important. Through the roof 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Some sell their grapes to a négociant, and some simply rent their four rows of vines to a winemaker and live the high-life as a rentier in the Eighth. The Greatest Wine In The World 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z But Iraqi Kurdistan’s economy is still a rentier one, based almost solely on oil. Ever closer to independence 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Obama's State of the Union, you see, will call for $320 billion of new taxes on rentiers, their heirs, and the big banks to pay for $175 billion of tax credits that will reward work. President Obama finally has his Piketty moment 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Given the ongoing labor slack and low labor force participation, you’d think an increase in output and hiring at the expense of wealth rentiers would be something to celebrate. Rents, Ridesharing, And Taxi Millionaires 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Such a dynamic runs against the Piketty’s rentier hypothesis of capital accumulating to the top. Why Economists Disagree With Piketty's "r>g" Hypothesis On Wealth Inequality 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z What I would like to take up is Adam Smith views on the rentier class, which, for me at least, is a far more intellectually interesting topic than Keynesianism versus… SSVE. A Nation of Shopkeepers 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z I've been fortunate with landlords who are kind, supportive, and diligent; my current rentier is a star. Renting a home: what every tenant should know 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Wealthy elderly people, enjoying the compound interest from investments accumulated across decades, preside over a rentier economy that's devastating to the young and poor, as house prices and rents become unaffordable. This is thrilling life-extension news – for dictators and the ultra-rich 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z He just wishes to provide a check on capitalism's tendency to create a useless class of parasitical rentiers. Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z We thus have rentiers leeching money out of the taxi system and this is a pure case of cronyism. The Sharing Economy Interprets Regulation And Cronyism As Damage And Routes Around Them 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z But after 1979 capitalism was restructured to promote wealth accumulation, ending the "euthanasia of the rentier" Keynes had designed into the postwar system. Thomas Piketty's real challenge was to the FT's Rolex types 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Piketty treats this explosion in compensation as a “rent” that companies are paying to “super-managers” and concludes that the right way to deal with the problem is to increase taxes on the rentiers. Piketty On Inequality: Can Macroeconomists Solve This Problem? 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The rentier foundations of the plurinational republic will one day cave in, upsetting Mr Morales’s balancing act and prompting the return of mass protest. Bolivia’s rentier republic 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z “The entrepreneur inevitably tends to become a rentier, more and more dominant over those who own nothing but their labor,” economist Thomas Piketty writes in his explosive and unexpected best-seller “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” Piketty answers David Brooks: The best-selling economist sounds off to Salon 2014-05-06T12:30:00Z Piketty fears the stasis and sluggishness of the rentier, but what might appear to be static blocks of wealth have done a great deal to boost dynamic productivity. The ultimate guide to shutting down conservative anti-Piketty hysteria 2014-05-04T16:00:00Z But the most important question is the future: if Piketty is right then we have to "euthanase" the rentier class all over again. Thomas Piketty's real challenge was to the FT's Rolex types 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z But the first time in the history of the United States, either in 1984 or 1985, that rentier income surpassed the income earned from wages. Our sad “Mad Men” revolution: How consumerism co-opted rebellion 2014-05-04T11:00:00Z And speaking of a rentier economy, our pensioners now cost the country 17% of gdp - a world record. Macroeconomics: Are we doomed? 2013-08-13T11:49:04Z Far from Keynes' recommendation of the "euthanasia of the rentier", increased public debt puts the finance sector on life support. Japan's QE will leave its workers out of pocket with lower quality of life 2013-04-05T14:08:48Z Worse still: the infectious idea of internalising externalities turns its victims into grasping, would-be rentiers. Why trying to charge for everything will kill online creativity 2013-01-08T11:01:10Z That's a more satisfying explanation for inflation aversion than the rentier hypothesis, in which influential creditors nudge central banks toward low inflation to protect the value of their portfolios. Jobless recoveries: Labour lost 2012-10-25T18:02:19Z And we are developing right now a really, an extremely opulent rentier class. Our sad “Mad Men” revolution: How consumerism co-opted rebellion 2014-05-04T11:00:00Z A rentier class holds the nation's children to ransom. After 800 years, the barons are back in control of Britain 2012-07-16T19:30:01Z While our government proposes housing benefit cuts, it ignores the underlying problem that housing is too expensive because the market is now rigged in favour of rentiers and speculators, not home-makers. Young people are the key to fixing the UK's woes – but they need our help first 2012-07-06T09:24:23Z This is especially true for the capital-gains tax, the levy that defines the rentier class that the protesters resent. Want to Create Jobs? First Cut Capital-Gains Taxes: Amity Shlaes 2011-11-04T09:28:43Z “The super-rich today are not rentiers living off their accumulated wealth, as was frequently true in early part of the last century,” he said. Protesters Said, the Data Show It: Much Wealth Resides in New York 2011-10-26T03:07:53Z Audience question: Talking about the speed, sort of dovetailing off his question, the idea of a rentier class, the divergence between GDP and wages which is another way of thinking about it. Our sad “Mad Men” revolution: How consumerism co-opted rebellion 2014-05-04T11:00:00Z “His answer is diversifying his strategy of running his country as a ‘rentier state,’ with now China as his main client.” North Korea Rents Out Its Resources to Stave Off Reform 2011-10-25T17:34:50Z Even the rentiers of the H�tel-de-Ville, big and little, usually very peaceable folk, were excited by the curtailment of their incomes, and in 1639 and 1642 were roused to fury. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The small business man, much more than the small rentier, reaps continually greater benefit from the advantages offered to the public by the Bank of France. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z After all, Keynes talked about the “euthanasia of the rentier”. Buttonwood: Hands off our pensions 2010-12-02T11:05:00Z The American people, in other words, could insist that the United States will be a democratic republican nation-state, not a post-national rentier oligarchy. Are the American people obsolete? 2010-07-27T13:01:00Z The rentier and his ways, how familiar they were in England before the war! The Acquisitive Society Some of 'em have come to avoid being skinned alive, by Islam, some to get money enough to go back with and be rentiers. The Prisoner The wealth of France has, to a very large extent, been created by cautious and far-seeing rentiers, and thus France has become the banker among nations. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals But neither he nor Madame complained much; though they belonged to the rentier class and were liable to suffer more than those whose incomes were capable of expansion. A Padre in France Most of my comrades, aged from seven to nineteen or twenty, were the sons of well‑to‑do fathers—soldiers, sailors, rentiers, owners of land, public officials, in professions or business or trade. The Martian Wherever the English settle they raise the price of everything, much to the annoyance of the rentiers and respectable people of the place, although of advantage to the country generally. Olla Podrida M. Guary tells me there are a good many small rentiers living here, which seems to show that the place must be orderly and quiet. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 For the first time for many years he visited his Austrian rentiers, and was warned by the Entente Ministers. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle America has plenty of poor loafers, but few wealthy rentiers who spend their days in bed or in idleness, and are therefore insatiable in their appetite for entertainment in the evening. Chopin and Other Musical Essays Mr. A—— had been in some business, I believe, but when I visited him he was living as a small rentier, in a pretty little house on the main road from Paris to Versailles. Records of a Girlhood It is true that sometimes a fat financier, or rich rentier, who may have called himself a sportsman, has been carried off and ransom demanded for him, but a real sportsman never. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha Du Maurier's father was a small rentier, deriving his income from the family glass-works in Anjou. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians For a man to have his name on the Grand Livre is to constitute him what is called a rentier, rentes being the French word for dividends from the public funds. France in the Nineteenth Century At Aix he tried to pass for a respectable rentier; he found no difficulty in being silly, but he could not achieve the necessary commonplaceness. Since Cézanne Evreux, at present, is a town containing about eight thousand inhabitants, a great proportion of whom are persons of independent property, or rentiers, as the French call them. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 Such was the immigrant's first conjecture; and, as with slow, scant questions and answers they made their bargain, every new glance strengthened it; he was evidently a rentier. The Grandissimes It is prosperous looking, the home of sturdy farmers and the small rentiers. On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes But everywhere in Europe what is happening is a great transformation of the property owner into a rentier, and the passing of realty into the hands of the State. What is Coming? When the number of small rentiers is considered, i.e., men and women of the middle-class living upon a minimum income, we can understand the usefulness of this home. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne The first person whom she sought out was the rentier—the landlord of the cottage. Blind Love The elder bought houses and became a rentier. The Grandissimes With his retreating forehead, and his immense ears, his odious turned-up nose, tiny eyes, and coarse, thick lips, M. Tabaret seemed an excellent type of the ignorant, pennywise, petty rentier class. Monsieur Lecoq Directly the phase of enormous war loans ends, the new class of rentiers holding the various great new national loans will find themselves drawing this collectively vast income and anxious to invest it. What is Coming? The rentier is ruined, not being able to buy food. The French Revolution - Volume 3 He gives himself the name of Piquouique, rentier, English; and he appeals to his Ambassador. Old Friends, Epistolary Parody So just a condition," said the merchant, raising his whisper so much that the rentier laid a hand in his elbow,--"such mere justice," he said, more softly, "ought to be an easy condition. The Grandissimes The nett tendency is towards the disappearance of a reality holding class and the destruction of realities in warfare, and the appearance of a vast rentier class in its place. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war On the other hand, there will be an enormously increased rentier class drawing the interest of the war loans from the community, and maintaining a generally high standard of comfort. What is Coming? This second way is by increasing the wealth of the state and by increasing the national production to such an extent that the payment of the rentier class will not be an overwhelming burthen. War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war |
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