The U.S. residential housing market collapse illustrates the consequences of ignoring risk while funding mortgage borrowing. Collateral over-valuation was a foundational piece of the crisis. Over the past few decades, secondary markets, securitization, policy and psychology increased the flow of...

Beginning in mid-2007, the worldwide monetary emergency immediately transformed from the bursting of the housing bubble rise in the US to the most noticeably awful recession the world has seen for more than six decades. Through a top to bottom survey of the emergency regarding the causes,...

"Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer important insights into what is happening in today's mortgage market including the causes, effects, and aftermath of the 'subprime' mortgage crisis"--