The Political Economy of Land: Rent, Financialization and Resistance

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
About the contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Political Economy of Land
PART I: The Assetization of Land and Buildings
	1. Land as a Financial Asset: The Theory of Urban Rent as a Mirror of Economic Transformation
	2. Land as an Asset
	3. Buildings as Financial Assets
PART II: Rent, Real Estate, and Property Markets
	4. The Risk Myth: Blackstone, Housing and Rentier Capitalism
	5. The Political Economy of Abandoned Property: Structure and Agency in Land Banking Practice in Muncie, Indiana
	6. The Political Economy of Italian Public Real Estate Privatization: Austerity, Financialization and the “Enrichment Economy”
	7. The Singapore and Hong Kong Property Markets: Lessons for the West from Successful Global Cities
PART III: Land and Social Relations
	8. Land Relations in Turmoil: Trans-Local Constructions of Home Among Rural Migrants in Xiamen, China
	9. Bridging Between Owners and Users in Japan’s Private Property Regime: The Case of Farmland Banking
	10. Unauthorized Neighborhoods, Land Rent, and Working-Class Struggles in Indian Cities: The Slum Question Revisited
	11. Public Land as a Social Relation: The Case of East River Park in New York City
	12. Land Rent and the Struggle for the Urban Commons in Helsinki’s Suvilahti DIY Skatepark
Conclusion: A Summary from the Perspective of Rent Theory
Index