"In the United States, homeownership is synonymous with economic security and middle-class status. It has played this role in American life for almost a century, and as a result, homeownership's centrality to Americans' economic lives has come to seem natural and inevitable. But this state of...

"When business school classes study this collapse in hindsight many years from now..., they will certainly pore through reams of rich data, charts, and graphs, and seek out various flaws in the present-day business models, looking for what went wrong, and what was the tipping point. But no data,...

1. Introduction : financialization and houseing studies -- 2. Centring housing in political economy / with Brett Christophers -- 3. The financialization of home and the mortgage market crisis -- 4. The great moderation, the great excess and the global housing crisis -- 5. Financialization and...