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The Rentier Black Hole

Henry Fudge
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Why domestic and foreign capital flows into property and does not come back out. A theory of land, housing, and open-economy failure: how a non-reproducible asset absorbs global savings, breaks wage-price adjustment, and hollows out the productive economy

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