On voodoo economics: theorising relations of property, value and contemporary capitalism

By Brett Christophers. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Sociology and Political Science

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The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism (2020, methodology): “There are interesting parallels between the methods of rentier platforms and the “ voodoo economics ” of property value and ﬁ nancial capital (Christophers 2010).”
‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance (2014, methodology): “These new FIMOs make use of the same logic that Christophers (2010) observes in opco-propco restructurings.”
Building cities on financial assets: The financialisation of property markets and its implications for city governments in the Paris city-region (2016, methodology): “…“land as a financial asset” (2006 [1982], p. 347), and highlighting how city governments are incentivized to treat land “on strictly financial grounds” (Christophers, 2010, p. 98), the uneven spatial, social, and political outcomes of redevelopment projects have been viewed as reflecting a…”
Generation rent and the financialization of housing: a comparative exploration of the growth of the private rental sector in Ireland, the UK and Spain (2020, background): “In terms of the former, financialization has converted housing into a ‘pure financial asset’ (Christophers, 2010), shaped more by its role as a form of investment than either as a commodity or indeed as a ‘use value’ (Dewilde, 2018).”
Land financialisation and the financing of urban development in China (2019, background): “Christophers (2010) argues that even with the difficulty of tracing the actual money flow, the contemporary treatment of property is increasingly associated with its financial traits, as in the ‘attempts of western-based financiers to extract profit from companies with significant real estate…”
Centring Housing in Political Economy (2014, background): “Not the least of these, of course, is the contradiction between housing’s use value and exchange value, and the tensions that result from expecting and encouraging the former to be delivered by a system which relentlessly prioritizes the latter (c.f. Christophers 2010).”