Land Rent, Capital, Rate of Profit : A Critique of David Harvey's Theory of Urban Land Rent /
This book provides a critique of David Harvey's theory of land rent and his replacement of Marx's concept of absolute rent with class-monopoly rent, arguing that this shift inadequately addresses crucial theoretical and empirical problems in urban economic geography today. The alternative...
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
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Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
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- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Structural Analysis
- Critiquing Harvey from a Marxist Perspective
- Part 1 Capitalist Urbanization and the Centrality of Land Rent
- 1 Harvey and the Structural Analysis of Capitalist Urbanization
- 1.1Pre-Harveyan Urban Analysis and Harvey's Critique
- 1.2Urbanization as Capitalist Accumulation
- 1.3The Dual Theses: Capital Switching and Spatial Fix
- 1.4Land Rent as a Linchpin in the Analysis of Urbanization
- 1.5Gaps and Tensions in Harvey's Theory
- 1.6Summary
- 2 The Evolution of Rent Applications by Harveyan Geographers since the 1980s
- 2.1Periodizing Rent Applications
- 2.2Theoretical Challenges and Controversies over Rent Categories in Urban Contexts
- 2.3Urban Applications of Rent Theory
- 2.4An Unresolved Debate and an Incomplete Project
- 3 Two Models of Land Rent
- 3.1Harvey's Spatial Monopoly Model of Land Rent (SMLR)
- 3.2The Turbulent Inter-sectoral Model of Land Rent (TILR)
- 3.3Judging between the Two Models
- Part 2 Empirical Comparisons of the Two Models
- 4 Harvey's Empirical Evidence Revisited: Inter-sectoral Profitability and US Cities
- 4.1Absolute Rent or Class-Monopoly Rent
- 4.2Measuring Aggregate and Sectoral Rates of Return
- 4.3Profit Rates on the Recent Investment and Capital Switching
- 4.4From Macro to Micro
- 5 Swedish Municipal Site Leasehold: Capital Switching and Land Policy
- 5.1Municipal Site Leasehold and Its Macroeconomic and Institutional Tensions
- 5.2Capital Switching, Economic Crisis, and Land Rent
- 5.3Final Remarks
- 6 Shortage of Affordable Housing in Malmö
- 6.1Real Competition and Relative Prices
- 6.2Housing Shortage in Malmö-Empirical Evidence
- 6.3Implications of the TILR for Housing Shortage in Malmö
- 6.4Concluding Remarks
- 7 The Decline of Iran's First Public Housing Program
- 7.1Iranian Capitalism, State, and Public Economy
- 7.2Labor Relations and the Aggregate Rate of Profit
- 7.3Financial System, Manufacturing Sector, Technology, and Geopolitical Conflicts
- 7.4The Mehr Housing Program, an Overview
- 7.5Inter-sectoral Analysis and Urban Land Rent in the Iranian Housing Sector
- 8 Spatial Inequality and Gentrification in Tehran
- 8.1Housing and Spatial Inequality in Tehran
- 8.2Social Demand, Profitability, and Land Rent
- 9 Concluding Remarks on Empirical Comparisons of the Two Models
- Part 3 Theoretical Foundations of the Two Models
- 10 The SMLR, TILR, and Theories of Competition
- 10.1Competition Theories and Economic Theories
- 10.2Harvey and Theories of Competition
- 10.3Competition Theories and Rent Theories
- 10.4Harvey's Argument against the Concept of Absolute Rent
- 10.5Concluding Remarks
- 11 The Turbulent Inter-sectoral Model of Land Rent (TILR)
- Summary and Conclusions
- Appendix 1: Rent Categories: an Overview
- 1.1Differential Rent
- 1.2Absolute Rent
- 1.3Monopoly Rent
- 1.4Class-Monopoly Rent
- Appendix 2: Data Sources
- 2.1Data Sources Used for Chapter 4
- 2.2Data Sources Used for Chapters 5 and 6
- 2.3Data Sources Used for Chapters 7 and 8
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index.