Abstract 'Energy sufficiency'involves reducing consumption of energy services in order to
minimise the associated environmental impacts. This may either be through individual …

Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion's share of wealth growth
going to the top, for a growing percentage of society a middle-class existence is out of reach …

Secure housing is core to the Sustainable Development Goals and a fundamental human
right. However, potential conflicts between housing and sustainability objectives remain …

There is increasing consensus that modern capitalist economies suffer from excessive rent
extraction in both financial and real economy sectors. However, scholars have yet to …

In conventional economics, value creation occurs in the private sector with the state limited
to correcting for “market failures”. Public management scholars have developed the term …

Since the 1990s there has been a significant decline in the share of total bank credit flowing
to nonfinancial firms relative to real estate and financial assets. This has raised concerns …

The decline in the share of bank credit to non-financial firms since the 1990s, relative to
credit for real estate and financial asset markets, has raised concerns over economic growth …

This paper argues that the housing affordability and wealth inequality crises facing
advanced economies are driven by the emergence of a feedback cycle between finance and …

Urban planning systems, processes and regulations are often blamed–by many mainstream
economists–for constraining the supply of housing by interfering with the efficient allocation …

The past decade has seen a revival of private renting across a wide range of countries and
housing regimes. Economic and housing restructuring has enhanced rental housing's …