The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts (International Political Economy Series) - Hardcover

Seabrooke, Leonard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230230806 ISBN 13: 9780230230804

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

HERMAN SCHWARTZ is Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, USA. A prolific author, his most recent book is Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital and the Housing Bubble. His other publications include Dominions of Debt and States versus Markets.

LEONARD SEABROOKE is Professor in International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, at the University of Warwick, UK. His book publications include The Social Sources of Financial Power, US Power in International Finance, Global Standards of Market Civilization (with Brett Bowden) and Everyday Politics of the World Economy (with John M. Hobson).

Review:

'Schwartz and Seabrooke have done what most academics fail to do; produce a volume that is both timely and extremely relevant. As well providing us with a panoptic view of the global housing crisis, they frame it with a theoretical framework that clarifies the central causal and constitutive processes at the heart of the global crisis. If you want to understand why the financial world just blew up I cannot think of a better place to start.' - Mark Blyth, The Johns Hopkins University, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0230230806
• ISBN 13: 9780230230804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Schwartz H.