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The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Schwartz, Herman M.; Seabrooke, Leonard

DOI: 10.1057/9780230280441

ISBN: 978-0-230-23081-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Aug 28, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Varieties of Residential Capitalism in the International Political Economy: Old Welfare States and the New Politics of Housing

Schwartz, Herman M.; Seabrooke, Leonard

Pages: 1 –27

[Comparative and international political economy (CPE and IPE) are justifiably obsessed with finance as a source of power and as a key causal force for domestic and international economic and political outcomes. Yet both CPE and IPE ignore the single largest asset in people’s everyday lives and...
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Housing, Global Finance, and American Hegemony: Building Conservative Politics One Brick at a Time

Schwartz, Herman M.

Pages: 28 –51

[What role did capital flows into and out of the U.S. play in both the global housing boom and bust and the new politics this bubble produced? This chapter provides an international context both for U.S. domestic housing developments and the more domestically oriented analyses in the other...
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Boom and Crash: The Politics of Individual Subject Creation in the Most Recent British House Price Bubble

Watson, Matthew

Pages: 52 –75

[At the time of writing — January 2009 — British banks remained deeply embroiled in the ongoing fallout from the intensification of the credit crunch which occurred in the fall of 2008. On the day in late September 2008 when the U.S. House of Representatives voted down the first attempt to...
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The Politics of Capital Gains: Building an Asset-Based Society in New Zealand

Broome, André

Pages: 76 –96

[Examining changes in varieties of residential capitalism is important for understanding broader changes in financial behavior, which can have a significant impact on individuals’ political choices as well as a country’s economic performance. In addition, when domestic property bubbles burst this...
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Recommodification, Residualism, and Risk: The Political Economy of Housing Bubbles in Norway

Tranøy, Bent Sofus

Pages: 97 –121

[Over the last 25 years, Norway’s social democratic welfare state has experienced two housing market bubbles and one severe bust. Until recently Norwegian boom and bust movements have been even more exaggerated than the corresponding American cycles (see Figure 5.1). After peaking in August 2007,...
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Egalitarian Politics in Property Booms and Busts: Housing as Social Right or Means to Wealth in Australia and Denmark

Mortensen, Jens Ladefoged; Seabrooke, Leonard

Pages: 122 –145

[Do property booms and busts change a population’s views about whether housing should be considered as a social right or a means to wealth? This chapter investigates this question by comparing changes to taxation and housing finance regimes in what is defined in the editors’ introductory chapter...
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Residential Capitalism in Italy and the Netherlands

Aalbers, Manuel B.

Pages: 146 –169

[In the 1990s it became fashionable to argue that economic globalization in combination with deregulation would lead to a deterritorialization of economic activities and the prevalence of the global scale over the local, regional, and national scales (e.g. Levine, 1997; Ohmae, 1990; Wachtel,...
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Political Framing in National Housing Systems: Lessons from Real Estate Developers in France and Spain

Pollard, Julie

Pages: 170 –187

[In many Western countries, the desire for homeownership is understood as universal. A similar claim on the desire for property is common in the French and Spanish political spheres and in the media. During his campaign in 2007, French presidential candidate Sarkozy announced that the...
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Origins and Consequences of the U.S. Subprime Crisis

Schwartz, Herman M.

Pages: 188 –207

[The same dynamics driving the housing boom in the U.S. and elsewhere also drove the boom off the rails, producing the current global financial crisis. As in all booms, the bubble burst when the boom used up its fuel. Global disinflation, the recycling of U.S. trade deficits, and a ready supply...
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Conclusion: Residential Capitalism and the International Political Economy

Schwartz, Herman M.; Seabrooke, Leonard

Pages: 208 –226

[In August 2007 the global economy hit an iceberg composed of mortgage debt. $600 billion in U.S. subprime mortgages comprised the visible part of that iceberg, but several trillion dollars of mortgage and other assets packaged into CDOs constituted the invisible part of the iceberg. Like the...

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