The accumulation of capital is historically related to producing and appropriating space, infrastructures, land and natural resources. Consequently, space and society are mutually co-produced, and the contemporary phase of rentier capitalism produces and is produced by spaces that primarily serve the extraction of rents.

In Latin America, powerful economic actors referred to as "economic groups" largely control the production of space for wealth accumulation. Through networks of companies that are linked by long-term formal and informal ties but remain legally independent, economic groups are able to carry out coordinated actions and accumulate wealth.