Subprime cities : the political economy of mortgage markets

Author(s)

• Aalbers, Manuel B.

Bibliographic Information

Subprime cities : the political economy of mortgage markets

edited by Manuel B. Aalbers

（Studies in urban and social change）

Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

1st ed

• : pbk
• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BB09134517
• ISBN:
  • 9781444337778
  • 9781444337761
• LCCN: 2011036441
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, MA
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 338 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HG2040.15
  • DC23 : 332.7/2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Subprime mortgage loans
  • LCSH : Mortgage loans
  • LCSH : Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
  • FREE : POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development bisacsh
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18670313