Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate
(offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand …

Owning a house is the most important economic choice most families will ever make. Yet,
our understanding of the political causes and consequences of homeownership is rather …

Comparative research on income inequality has produced several frameworks to study the
institutional determinants of income stratification. In contrast, no such framework and much …

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining
ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long …

This critical commentary confronts and explores the–so far under-recognised and under-
researched–emergent global crisis of urban housing affordability and affordable housing …

Socioeconomic inequality is on the rise in major European cities, as are concerns over it,
since it is seen as a threat to social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is …

Since the early 2000s, scholars from a variety of disciplines have used the concept of
financialization to describe a host of structural changes in the advanced political economies …

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't
land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the …

What becomes of class when residential property prices in major cities around the world
accrue more income in a year than the average wage worker? This paper investigates the …

The paper expands the conceptual framework within which we examine mortgage debt by
reconceptualising mortgages as a biotechnology: a technology of power over life that forges …