The bonds of inequality : debt and the making of the American city / Destin Jenkins.
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TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021Description: viii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226721545
- Debt and the making of the American city
- Municipal bonds -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
- Finance, Public -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
- Debts, Public -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century
- Municipal government -- California -- San Francisco -- Finance -- History -- 20th century
- Equality -- Economic aspects -- California -- San Francisco
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
- 336.34409794610904 JEN 23 016915
- HJ9205.S3 J36 2021
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| 336.30954 MAT DS0376 Approach to state-municipal fiscal relations : options and perspectives / | 336.3435091724 GEO 020667 A fate worse than debt / | 336.34350954 KIR 003335 India and the World Bank : | 336.34409794610904 JEN 016915 The bonds of inequality : | 336.36091724 DEA 009740 Dealing with public risk in private infrastructure / | 336.39 SUB 009811 Subnational governments in OECD countries : | 336.54 BHA 008481 Indian public finances / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Rule of experts. Management ; Fraternity ; Playground -- The paradox of debt. Shelter ; Crunch ; Revolt ; Failure -- Supremacy. Eclipse ; Pinched -- Epilogue.
"Cities require infrastructure as they grow and persist; infrastructure requires funding, typically from the bond market. But the bond market is not a neutral player. In this groundbreaking book, Destin Jenkins suggests that questions of urban infrastructure are inherently also questions of justice because infrastructure requires financial mechanisms to come into being. Moreover, these mechanisms abstract cities into investments controlled from afar, which exacerbates local inequalities of race, wealth, and power. Ultimately, Jenkins opens up far larger questions, such as why it is that American social welfare is predicated on the demands of finance capitalism in the first place"--
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