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The Mobilisation of Land as a Financial Asset: The Politics of Urban Rent Production in Post-Industrial Manchester and Antwerp KU Leuven
The mobilisation of land as a financial asset has become a defining feature of sociospatial restructuring in post-industrial European cities. Returning to the neglected literature on land rent, I argue that fundamental contradictions arise from treating land as capital which shape contemporary urban processes in important ways. I explore how these contradictions unfold by analysing the active political role of rentiers in urban restructuring as ...
Neoliberal Europeanisation, Variegated Financialisation: Common but Divergent Economic Trajectories in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany KU Leuven
© 2018 Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG Revisiting attempts to connect comparative political economy and the geographies of finance, we present a balance sheet analysis of financialisation in the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany from 1992–2012. We define financialisation broadly as a trend towards a greater reliance on assets and/or debt, with particular manifestations across different domains of the economy: a greater reliance on financial ...
Neoliberalisation from the Ground Up: Insurgent Capital, Regional Struggle, and the Assetisation of Land KU Leuven
© 2018 The Author. Antipode © 2018 Antipode Foundation Ltd. In this paper we argue that “assetisation” has been a central axis through which both neoliberalisation and financialisation have encroached in the post-Fordist era. We focus on the mobilisation of land as a financial asset in northwest England's former industrial heartlands, offering an account of how property developer the Peel Group came to dominate the land and port infrastructure ...
Virtual special issue editorial essay:‘The shitty rent business’: What’s the point of land rent theory? KU Leuven
© 2016, © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2016. In this introduction to a virtual special issue on land rent, we sketch out the history of land rent theory, encompassing classical political economy, Marx’s political economy, the marginalist turn and subsequent foundations for urban economics, and the Marxist consensus around rent theory during geography’s spatial turn. We then overview some of the contemporary strands of literature that have ...