The Political Economy of Land : Rent, Financialization and Resistance (Paperback)

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 to 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