{"id":28725,"date":"2020-12-30T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28725"},"modified":"2020-12-30T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T17:08:29","slug":"a-hard-look-at-rent-and-rent-seeking-with-michael-hudson-pepe-escobar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2020\/12\/30\/a-hard-look-at-rent-and-rent-seeking-with-michael-hudson-pepe-escobar\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson &#038; Pepe Escobar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism <\/em>has posted a transcript and a video of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2020\/12\/a-hard-look-at-rent-and-rent-seeking-with-michael-hudson-pepe-escobar.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson &#038; Pepe Escobar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYves here. Another belated Christmas offering, a second talk by Michael Hudson, this one with the trenchant Pepe Escobar. Get a cup of coffee, because this is a meaty talk, and Michael provides extensive detail on the operation of rents and rentiers, with detail on who did what when. For instance, early in the conversation, Hudson gives a back-of-the-envelope of how little the average worker has left after paying for essentials like rent, medical care, and taxes. Also forgive the occasional typo; it took a lot of effort to transcribe a talk of this length.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IquO_TcMZIQ\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nAn interactive discussion on wealth inequality and the \u201cGreat Game\u201d on the control of natural resources.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has posted a transcript and a video of A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson &#038; Pepe Escobar. Yves here. Another belated Christmas offering, a second talk by Michael Hudson, this one with the trenchant Pepe Escobar. Get a cup of coffee, because this is a meaty talk, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28726,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28725\/revisions\/28726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}