The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts [electronic resource] /
Seabrooke, Leonard.author.
Schwartz, H.editor.
This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housing finance and the current international financial crisis.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Varieties of Residential Capitalism in the International Political Economy: Old Welfare States and the New Politics of Housing; 2 Housing, Global Finance, and American Hegemony: Building Conservative Politics One Brick at a Time; 3 Boom and Crash: The Politics of Individual Subject Creation in the Most Recent British House Price Bubble; 4 The Politics of Capital Gains: Building an Asset-Based Society in New Zealand; 5 Recommodification, Residualism, and Risk: The Political Economy of Housing Bubbles in Norway
6 Egalitarian Politics in Property Booms and Busts: Housing as Social Right or Means to Wealth in Australia and Denmark7 Residential Capitalism in Italy and the Netherlands; 8 Political Framing in National Housing Systems: Lessons from Real Estate Developers in France and Spain; 9 Origins and Consequences of the U.S. Subprime Crisis; 10 Conclusion: Residential Capitalism and the International Political Economy; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housing finance and the current international financial crisis.
International relations.
Social policy.
Political sociology.
Political economy.
Real estate management.
Regional planning.
Urban planning.
International Relations.
Social Policy.
Political Sociology.
International Political Economy.
Real Estate Management.
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.