Interest-earning nation

Japanese: 金利生活者国家 - きんりせいかつしゃこっか
Interest-earning nation

...In areas other than production activities, they are often extremely ostentatious, active, and busy. Lenin called countries that depend solely on interest and dividend income from overseas investments "rentauror states," and considered this to be an important sign of the "decay" of capitalism. Keynes also cited the existence of rentiers, who tend to focus on financial speculation with an emphasis on liquidity, as one of the causes of declining investment and economic stagnation in liberal economies. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to the "interest rate nation" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また生産活動以外の領域ではきわめて衒示的(誇示的),活動的で多忙をきわめることも多々あるとさえいわれる。レーニンは,もっぱら海外投資からの利子・配当収入に依存する国を〈金利生活者国家〉と名づけ,それを資本主義の〈腐朽〉の一つの重要な表れだとしている。またケインズは,自由主義経済において投資が減退し景気が沈滞する原因の一つに,流動性を重視した金銭的な投機に終始する傾向のある金利生活者の存在を挙げた。…

※「金利生活者国家」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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