Contents; Preface; Postmortem for a Housing Crash / Edward L. Glaeser and Todd Sinai; 1. House Price Moments in Boom-Bust Cycles / Todd Sinai; 2. The Supply Side of the Housing Boom and Bust of the 2000s / Andrew Haughwout, Richard W. Peach, John Sporn, and Joseph Tracy; 3. A Spatial Look at Housing...

Introduction : the quest for an investors' democracy -- The problem with financial securities -- The "free and open market" responds -- "Be a stockholder in victory!" -- Mobilizing the financial nation -- The postwar struggle for the financial nation -- Swords into shares -- The corporate quest...