Research indicates that positions of very high private wealth can often be maintained by
families over many generations. This article puts front and center the institutions …

The socio-economic impacts on cities during the COVID-19 pandemic have been brutal,
leading to increasing inequalities and record numbers of unemployment around the world …

Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion's share of wealth growth
going to the top, for a growing percentage of society a middle-class existence is out of reach …

A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is
returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions. The …

How the asset—anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream—
has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. In this book, scholars from a …

Housing inequality is far more than a housing matter. To discover how housing inequality
has been used across disciplines, and how this may inform future housing research, we …

One of California's most pressing social and environmental challenges is the rapid
expansion of the wildlands–urban interface (WUI). Multiple issues associated with WUI …

An asset is both a resource and property, in that it generates income streams with its sale
price based on the capitalization of those revenues. Although an asset's income streams can …

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–09, political economists have typically
identified and interrogated speculative logics and credit-debt relations as the markers of …

The private rental sector (PRS) is making a surprising comeback. A central argument in our
paper is that we see the rise of PRS and the associated stagnation of homeownership as …