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Alfred, a geographer, photographer, and sportsman, came from a wealthy rentier Geneva family.
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Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
—Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
New research for this exhibition revealed Gallo to be, in fact, the son of a banker, who also studied law and lived as a rentier like Caillebotte.
—Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Saudi Arabia wants to move beyond its rentier welfare state, which, as of 2017, employed two-thirds of the country’s workforce.
—Bernard Haykel, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
The rentier reported higher revenue last quarter, up 7% from last year to $2.2 billion.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
As a result, the tech industry, seeking its own share of the rentier’s pie, would rather speak of novel public-private partnerships and unexpected insights garnered from parsing millions of private medical records.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
The roots of the economic crisis are complicated, but as Hannes Baumann explains in a recent paper, the Lebanese elite has for decades pursued a form of unproductive rentier capitalism.
—Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
After describing his multiple homes, his yacht, and his private plane, Hanauer argued that the U.S. was at risk of becoming a neo-feudalist rentier society similar to France before the Revolution.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
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Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
—Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
New research for this exhibition revealed Gallo to be, in fact, the son of a banker, who also studied law and lived as a rentier like Caillebotte.
—Sarah Belmont, ARTnews.com, 31 Oct. 2024
Saudi Arabia wants to move beyond its rentier welfare state, which, as of 2017, employed two-thirds of the country’s workforce.
—Bernard Haykel, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
The rentier reported higher revenue last quarter, up 7% from last year to $2.2 billion.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
As a result, the tech industry, seeking its own share of the rentier’s pie, would rather speak of novel public-private partnerships and unexpected insights garnered from parsing millions of private medical records.
—Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 28 May 2021
The roots of the economic crisis are complicated, but as Hannes Baumann explains in a recent paper, the Lebanese elite has for decades pursued a form of unproductive rentier capitalism.
—Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
After describing his multiple homes, his yacht, and his private plane, Hanauer argued that the U.S. was at risk of becoming a neo-feudalist rentier society similar to France before the Revolution.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
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“Rentier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rentier. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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rentier
noun
ren·tier
rän-ˈtyā, ˈrän-ˌtyā 
: a person who lives on income from property or securities
Etymology
French, from rente income from a property, rent
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