Residential property is the single largest asset in people's everyday lives and its associated mortgage debt constitutes one of the biggest financial assets in most economies. Yet political economy largely ignores both. This volume argues that the kind of housing people occupy a…
This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housi…
This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links between housi…
Demonstrating how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth, this text analyses varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international studies, as well as investigating the links between housing finance and the c…
This dissertation consists of three chapters that examine the spatial distribution of economic activities. The first chapter examines how disasters as well as individuals’ expectations of what others will do affect the development of cities. The development of cities often invol…
This study examines South African house prices with a view to determining whether the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) had an effect on those prices. The first part of this study discusses alternative investments and real estate as an investment and the risks that come with it. The…
Family change in China over the past few decades has been characterised by a trend towards later marriage, greater marital instability, and increases in non-marital pregnancy and unmarried cohabitation. At the same time, many other features of Chinese marriage patterns have chan…
