Planetary Rent Gaps

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Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and tourism-driven displacement: A case study in Lisbon (2019, background): “Following Srnicek (2017), Shaw (2018) sees Airbnb as part of platform real estate – that is, digital infrastructure connecting users in an unprecedented way.”
The global urban housing affordability crisis (2017, unknown): “In a post-GFC environment, gen-trification is said to have become the default process of urban remaking driven by the prospect of exploiting planetary rent gaps (Slater, 2017).”
Virtual special issue editorial essay: ‘The shitty rent business’: What’s the point of land rent theory? (2016, background): “– himself mired in the categories of rent theory in writing The Limits to Capital at the time – was famously dismissive of his graduate student’s efforts (Slater, 2015), and this can be said to have rather anticipated a sympathetic but definite distance between rent gap and land rent theory.”
The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism (2020, background): “…a revitalisation, of research on Marxist theorisa-tion of rent and value (Bigger and Robertson 2017; Kay and Kenney-Lazar 2017; The Internet of Landlords Purcell et al. 2019; Slater 2017) by extending this analysis beyond applications to land and nature so that it also includes platforms and data.”