This book analyzes in a new way the causes of the current crash by showing
how such events derive from real estate bubbles and their interactions with banks and
other lenders.
- Analyzes the current crisis of the real estate crash and explains the recurring
cycle which led to it
- Examines why frequent assessments are crucial to making the property tax an
effective method of preventing speculative real estate bubbles
- Combines theoretical analysis with observed cycles of land speculation to
demonstrate the impact on the modern economy
Mason Gaffney has been a professor of economics at the University of California,
Riverside for the past 33 years. He is the author of The Corruption of Economics, an
explanation of how land became excluded from neoclassical economic models. He has
also written extensively on various aspects of resource economics, urban economics, tax
policy, and capital theory.
Table of Contents
Frontispiece Portrait of Mason Gaffney.
Editor's Introduction (Clifford W. Cobb).
1. The Role of Land Markets in Economic Crises (Mason Gaffney).
2. A New Framework for Macroeconomics: Achieving Full Employment by Increasing
Capital Turnover (Mason Gaffney).
3. Money, Credit, and Crisis (Mason Gaffney ).
Index.
200 pages, Hardcover