Christophers turns this inherited characterization of economic success somewhat on its head by presenting UK capitalism as a degenerate: fundamentally extractive, based on the private hoarding of assets, and supported by state policies that safeguard asset values and monopoly rents. While this is certainly a more progressive case than anything in Christophers' book (and the program was canceled in 2008 by the newly elected conservative London government) the construction of Massey's analysis is emblematic of the possibility for a more geographical and more relational macro politics of rentier capitalism: we need to fully account for the influence of the territories from which material resources or labor are used to feed the rentier machine at the metropole. Owning and paying for the rentier economy: commentary 2 Brett Christophers' I Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy and Who Pays for it i (Verso, 2020) is an in-depth accounting of the United Kingdom's descent (as Christophers might characterize it) into an economy based increasingly on " I having i , rather than I doing i " (2020, 1). Christophers, Brett Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy and Who Pays for It?. [Extracted from the article]