Subprime nation
Subtitle: American power, global capital, and the housing bubble
By: Herman M. Schwartz.
Series: Cornell studies in money; Cornell studies in money
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801448126
Subjects: Financial crises -- United States; Subprime mortgage loans -- United States; Housing -- United States -- Finance; Credit -- United States; International finance; Capital market; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001; United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-; United States -- Foreign economic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Our borrowing, your problem; title: Global capital flows and the absence of constraint; title: Investing in America : three creditors and a brassplate; title: Homes alone? : housing finance markets and differential growth; title: U.S. industrial decline?; title: The external political foundations of U.S. arbitrage; title: Boom to bust : housing, politics, and financial crisis in America; title: Toward the future : arbitrage, differential growth, and economic power.