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The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts
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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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Table of contents
- 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 Denmark
- 7 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