The rise in subprime lending and the ensuing wave of foreclosures was partly a result of
market forces that have been well-identified in the literature, but it was also a highly …

This article argues that financialization—shorthand for the growing influence of capital
markets, their intermediaries, and processes in contemporary economic and political life …

The notion of financialisation as the exploitation or expropriation of workers' wages in the
sphere of exchange is taken as a critical point of departure. In this way, financialisation is …

In this essay I look at the contemporary production of surplus life in liberal democracies, and
how it manifests a new type of sovereign spatial power. This power operates through the …

Immigrants' lack of financial integration has been explained by individual characteristics
including education, income, legal status and English ability, with little attention given to the …

The worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression—a wide-ranging,
multidimensional catastrophe often labeled the Great Recession—began to unfold in late …

This article seeks to critically examine public policy response to the global financial crisis in
the core of the developed world, and to understand the likely implications of this set of policy …

As the mortgage crisis took shape by 2007, the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
emerged at the center of a debate over whether community reinvestment regulations were …

Commentary 781 cities as sites of mundane and routine processing (Richardson et al,
2000), financial centres outside of London and New York have exercised significantly more …

Since spring 2008, an unprecedented housing crisis has left the front yards of US single-
family homes littered with “For Sale” signs, foreclosure notices, and dead flowers. The crisis …