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The Financialization of Housing : A Political Economy Approach.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (169 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317361787
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 333.338
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of Tables -- Credits and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Financialization and Housing Studies -- 2 Centring Housing in Political Economy -- 3 The Financialization of Home and the Mortgage Market Crisis -- 4 The Great Moderation, the Great Excess and the Global Housing Crisis -- 5 Financialization and Housing: Between Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism -- 6 Mortgage Lending and House Price Developments in Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the US -- 7 The Financialization of Subsidized Rental Housing -- 8 Conclusion: The Twenty-First Century Housing Question -- Index.
Summary: Due to the financialization of housing in today's market, housing risks are increasingly becoming financial risks. Financialization refers to the increasing dominance of financial actors, markets, practices, measurements and narratives. It also refers to the resulting structural transformation of economies, firms, states and households. This book asserts the centrality of housing to the contemporary capitalist political economy and places housing at the centre of the financialization debate.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of Tables -- Credits and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Financialization and Housing Studies -- 2 Centring Housing in Political Economy -- 3 The Financialization of Home and the Mortgage Market Crisis -- 4 The Great Moderation, the Great Excess and the Global Housing Crisis -- 5 Financialization and Housing: Between Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism -- 6 Mortgage Lending and House Price Developments in Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the US -- 7 The Financialization of Subsidized Rental Housing -- 8 Conclusion: The Twenty-First Century Housing Question -- Index.

Due to the financialization of housing in today's market, housing risks are increasingly becoming financial risks. Financialization refers to the increasing dominance of financial actors, markets, practices, measurements and narratives. It also refers to the resulting structural transformation of economies, firms, states and households. This book asserts the centrality of housing to the contemporary capitalist political economy and places housing at the centre of the financialization debate.

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