# The Corruption of Capitalism : Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay

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- Authors: [Guy Standing](https://www.bookquiver.com/guy-standing)
- Publisher: Biteback
- ISBN: 978-17-8590-217-8
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2017-12-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Guy Standing reveals the devastating effects of the construction of a global market economy. At the heart of the problem is the construction by successive governments, working in the interests of elites, of the most unfree market system ever created. A system in which property, financial, physical and intellectual, is controlled by a tiny but enormously powerful rentier class