Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subprime cities and the twin crises / Manuel B. Aalbers -- Creating liquidity out of spatial fixity: the secondary circuit of capital and the restructuring of the US housing finance system / Kevin Fox Gotham -- Finance and the state in the housing bubble / Herman Schwartz -- Expanding the terrain for global capital: when local housing becomes an electronic instrument / Saskia Sassen -- Building new markets: transferring securitization, bond-rating, and a crisis from the US to the UK / Thomas Wainwright -- European mortgage markets before and after the financial crisis / Manuel B. Aalbers -- The reinvention of banking and the subprime crisis: on the origins of subprime loans, and how economists missed the crisis / Gary A. Dymski -- Redlining revisited: mortgage lending patterns in Sacramento 1930-2004 / Jesus Hernandez -- The new economy and the city: foreclosures in Essex County New Jersey / Kathe Newman -- Race, class, and rent in America's subprime cities / Elvin Wyly, Markus Moos, and Daniel J. Hammel -- Subprime crisis and urban problematic / Gary A. Dymski.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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