SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Beth Stratford is an economist and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College of London (UCL). Her PhD thesis concerned the threat of rentier power in a resource-constrained future, the origins and evolution of the concept of rent, and its strengths and weaknesses as a discursive frame. She is a founder member of the London Renters Union and an advisor to The Social Guarantee and Positive Money.
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Beth Stratford is an economist and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College of London (UCL). Her PhD thesis concerned the threat of rentier power in a resource-constrained future, the origins and evolution of the concept of rent, and its strengths and weaknesses as a discursive frame. She is a founder member of the London Renters Union and an advisor to The Social Guarantee and Positive Money.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
During her stay at the Extractivist project, Beth explores policies for reducing and/or redistributing resource rents and for anticipating and managing the impacts of scarcity-induced inflation in an equitable fashion.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Stratford, B. “Plugging the hole at the heart of rent theory”. In: Sanghera, B. (ed.). Global Rentier Capitalism. Routledge (forthcoming).
Stratford, B. “Rival definitions of economic rent: historical origins and normative implications”, New Political Economy, 0, (2022): 1–16. VIEW PUBLICATION
Stratford, B. “The Threat of Rent Extraction in a Resource-constrained Future”, Ecological Economics, 169, 106524, (2020): 1-11. VIEW PUBLICATION
Stratford, B. and O’Neill, D.The UK’s Path to a Doughnut-Shaped Recovery. Leeds, University of Leeds, (2020) VIEW PUBLICATION
Stratford, B. and McCann, D. “How can we address the concerns of renters, without crashing house prices?” In: Konzelmann, S., Himmelweit, S., Smith, J. and Weeks, J. (Eds.) Rethinking Britain: Policy Ideas for the Many, Bristol: Policy Press (2019): 147-153. VIEW PUBLICATION