Subprime Cities

The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2012
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4443-3777-8 (ISBN)

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Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into what is happening in today's mortgage market including the causes, effects, and aftermath of the 'subprime' mortgage crisis.

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 be targeted by subprime and predatory lenders

Manuel B. Aalbers is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets (2011) and associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Urban Studies (2010).

List of Figures vii List of Tables viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Foreword: The Urban Roots of the Financial Crisis xiii
David Harvey

Series Editors’ Preface xx

Acknowledgments xxi

Part I Introduction 1

Subprime Cities and the Twin Crises 3
Manuel B. Aalbers

Part II The Political Economy of the Mortgage Market 23

1 Creating Liquidity Out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Restructuring of the US Housing Finance System 25
Kevin Fox Gotham

2 Finance and the State in the Housing Bubble 53
Herman Schwartz

3 Expanding the Terrain for Global Capital: When Local Housing Becomes an Electronic Instrument 74
Saskia Sassen

4 Building New Markets: Transferring Securitization, Bond-Rating, and a Crisis from the US to the UK 97
Thomas Wainwright

5 European Mortgage Markets Before and After the Financial Crisis 120
Manuel B. Aalbers

6 The Reinvention of Banking and the Subprime Crisis: On the Origins of Subprime Loans, and How Economists Missed the Crisis 151
Gary A. Dymski

Part III Cities, Race, and the Subprime Crisis 185

7 Redlining Revisited: Mortgage Lending Patterns in Sacramento 1930–2004 187
Jesus Hernandez

8 The New Economy and the City: Foreclosures in Essex County New Jersey 219
Kathe Newman

9 Race, Class, and Rent in America’s Subprime Cities 242
Elvin Wyly, Markus Moos, and Daniel J. Hammel

Part IV Conclusion 291

10 Subprime Crisis and Urban Problematic 293
Gary A. Dymski

Glossary 315

Index 324

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.3.2012
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Urban and Social Change
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
	Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Immobilienwirtschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-4443-3777-7 / 1444337777
ISBN-13	978-1-4443-3777-8 / 9781444337778
Zustand	Neuware