TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jenkins,Destin
TI  - The bonds of inequality: debt and the making of the American city 
SN  - 9780226721545
AV  - HJ9205.S3 J36 2021
U1  - 336.34409794610904 JEN 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Municipal bonds
KW  - California
KW  - San Francisco
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Finance, Public
KW  - Debts, Public
KW  - Municipal government
KW  - Finance
KW  - Equality
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - San Francisco (Calif.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Rule of experts. Management ; Fraternity ; Playground -- The paradox of debt. Shelter ; Crunch ; Revolt ; Failure -- Supremacy. Eclipse ; Pinched -- Epilogue
N2  - "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"--
ER  -