US rentierism, hegemony and militarism: corporate harm and state violence

This chapter offers a moral economic critique of US rentierism. It explains the nature of American rent extraction, giving specific attention to how US corporate rentiers appropriate value and are unjustly enriched based on intellectual property rights and the dollar hegemony. It then evaluates the effects of US rentierism, in particular how US militarism and imperialism combine with rentierism. The chapter argues that US rentierism reflects and sustains US hegemony with damaging and destructive consequences.