Cash rules everything around me
In defence of housing markets
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21499014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Krithiga Sankaran (0000-0003-4293-6299, Dartmouth College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 581-599 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economics and Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-2671 • E-ISSN: 1474-0028 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0266267125000057 |
| OpenAlex | W4408636603 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 54 |
I argue that alienation objections to housing markets face a dilemma. Either they purport to explain distributive injustices, or they hold that markets are objectionable on intrinsic grounds. The first disjunct is empirically dubious. The second undermines the motivation for objecting to housing markets, and overgeneralizes: if markets are objectionable due to alienation, so is all large-scale social cooperation
Actuarial science · Business · Cash · Economics · Law and economics · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Finance
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |