Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortgage markets and the causes, effects, and aftermath of the recent 'subprime' mortgage crisis. Provides an even-handed and detailed analysis of mortgage markets and the recent housing crisis Features contributions from various social scientists with expertise in critical social theories who have assembled and analyzed detailed empirical information Offers a unique and powerful rebuttal to many of the misleading popular explanations of the crisis and its aftermath Reveals how racial minorities and the neighbourhoods inhabited by them are more likely to betargeted by subprime and predatory lenders INDICE : Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction Foreword: The Urban Roots of the Financial Crisis David Harvey 1. Subprime Cities and the Twin Crises Manuel B. Aalbers Part II: The Political Economy of the Mortgage Market 2. Creating Liquidity out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Restructuring of the U.S. Housing Finance System Kevin Fox Gotham 3. Finance and the State in the Housing Bubble Herman Schwartz 4. Expanding the Terrain forGlobal Capital: When Local Housing Becomes an Electronic Instrument Saskia Sassen 5. Building New Markets: Transferring Securitization, Bond-Rating and a Crisis from the US to the UK Thomas Wainwright 6. European Mortgage Markets Before and After the Financial Crisis Manuel B. Aalbers 7. The Reinvention of Banking and the Subprime Crisis: On the Origins of Subprime Loans, and How Economists Missed the Crisis Gary A. Dymski Part III: Cities, Race and the Subprime Crisis 8. Redlining Revisited: Mortgage Lending Patterns in Sacramento 1930-2004 Jesus Hernandez 9. The New Economy and the City: Foreclosures in Essex County New Jersey Kathe Newman 10. Race, Class, and Rent in Americas Subprime Cities Elvin Wyly, Markus Moos and Daniel J. Hammel Part IV: Conclusion 11. Subprime Crisis and Urban Problematic Gary A. Dymski Glossary Index
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3777-8
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 364
- Fecha Publicación: 19/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés