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    Rethinking the economics of land and housing / Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane ; foreword by John Muellbauer.

    • Title:Rethinking the economics of land and housing / Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane ; foreword by John Muellbauer.
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    • Author/Creator:Ryan-Collins, Josh, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Lloyd, Toby (Writer of Don't bet the house on it), author.
      MacFarlane, Laurie (Economics analyst), author.
      Muellbauer, John, writer of foreword.
      New Economics Foundation, issuing body.
    • Published/Created:London : Zed Books Ltd, 2017.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Land tenure.
      Land use.
      Housing.
    • Description:xxvi, 253 pages ; 23 cm
    • Notes:"With the New Economics Foundation" - cover.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:1786991195 hardback
      9781786991195 hardback
      1786991187 paperback
      9781786991188 paperback
      9781786991201 electronic book
      9781786991218 electronic book
      9781786991225 electronic book
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
      1.1. What is land?
      1.2. What is the value of land?
      1.3. Landownership and economic rent
      1.4. Summary of chapters
      2. Landownership and property
      2.1. Introduction
      2.2. Landownership: origins of the theory and forms
      2.3. Landownership as freedom: secure title and economic growth
      2.4. Landownership as theft: power and economic rent
      2.5. Hypothesis: property is liberty, property is theft
      2.6. Responses to the ownership paradox
      2.7. Conclusion
      3. missing factor: land in production and distribution
      3.1. Introduction
      3.2. Classical political economy: land and economic rent
      3.3. Land tax or separation as a solution to the problem of economic rent
      3.4. Neoclassical economics and the conflation of land with capital
      3.5. Problems with the neoclassical account: fundamental differences between land and capital
      3.6. Political reasons for the disappearance of land from economic theory
      3.7. Land and socialism
      3.8. Consequences of the conflation of land and capital today
      3.9. Conclusion
      4. Land for housing: land economics in the modern era
      4.1. Introduction
      4.2. Industrial Revolution and the growth of cities
      4.3. 1900-1970: world wars and the golden age of capitalism
      4.4. 1970 onwards: the emergence of `residential capitalism'
      4.5. new political economy of housing
      4.6. Conclusion
      5. financialisation of land and housing
      5.1. Introduction
      5.2. House and land prices, income and bank credit
      5.3. Mortgage finance, the `lifecycle' model and the role of collateral
      5.4. history of mortgage and real estate finance in the UK
      5.5. Macroeconomic effects of the liberalisation of mortgage credit
      5.6. property-credit nexus and financial fragility
      5.7. Conclusion
      6. Land, wealth and inequality
      6.1. Introduction
      6.2. Trends in economic inequality
      6.3. Traditional explanations for increasing inequality
      6.4. role of land and economic rent in increasing inequality
      6.5. Why inequality matters
      6.6. Conclusion
      7. Putting land back into economics and policy
      7.1. Introduction
      7.2. Ownership
      7.3. Tax reform
      7.4. Financial reform
      7.5. Reforms to tenure
      7.6. Planning reform
      7.7. Changes to economics and national accounting
      7.8. Conclusion.
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