From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present
by Kim Moody
List Price:
Our Price: $7.31
You Save: $19.64 (73%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $7.29 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Kim MoodyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 1595580883
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: New Press
Book Reviews of From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Present
Book Review: A Look & Perspective Into How Things Change In NYC And Why We're Back In This Economic Mess Again!
Summary: 5 Stars
A lot of you will never ever pick this book up. There are many reason one wouldn't. Most people are just too engrossed in their ME ME ME life and rarely scratch the surface in getting to know, digest and clearly understand why things are in the state that they are AGAIN in 2009 as 2010 rounds the corner.
This book for some will be too filled with details. For others it will be just plain and simply dull or boring. But for the few who are required to read the ink between it's covers or those inquisitive enough to open this book up you will find a plethora of tidbits which will help draw a picture as to why we are back in a recession again. Why our political representatives have dropped the ball while they were in their own end zone on the football field.
Like all books it is written with an amount of perspective coming from the author's personal knowledge, point of view and beliefs. Much of it is accurate in is description of how things actually progressed historically here in NYC. (Somethings are likely hidden behind closed doors which no one will ever know about except for those who were in the room).
Bottom line is that this is a book for EVERYONE who wants to understand in a fairly rounded understanding how the cycle of history has repeated itself over and over here in the Global City we call New York. The common players are Politicians, Affluent, Working Class, and Real Estate. Hopefully through the digesting of this text people will seek out what is right for them, their children, their country and the globe.
In my opinion, being that I lived here in NYC during a good portion of the period from 1980 to present it connects the dots of what I've seen occurring in the landscape of NYC (from impoverish to affluent areas) which I never truly desired to understand nor made the efforts to piece together. I hope you are able to gleam something from this book no matter where you have lived. To understand the underlining dynamics that are in play which tug and pull at all players in NYC. And just maybe you will become involved in making it work just a bit better for everyone.
Nonfiction Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Political Economy of New York
Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial Cityby Nicole P. Marwell
University Of Chicago Press; Published: 2007-10-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.71
Price in other shops:
Immigrants Unions & The New Us Labor Mktby Immanuel Ness
Temple University Press; Published: 2005-06-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.96
Price in other shops:
Branding New York: How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the Worldby Miriam Greenberg
Routledge; Published: 2008-02-15; Paperback; Book
Best price: $31.30
Price in other shops:
Remaking New York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of Urban Community (Globalization and Community, V. 12)by William Sites
University of Minnesota Press; Published: 2003-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.47
Price in other shops:
There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Upby Lance Freeman
Temple University Press; Published: 2006-07-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $22.80
Price in other shops:
From Welfare State to Real Estate: Regime Change in New York City, 1974 to the Presentby Kim Moody
New Press; Published: 2007-05-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $10.00
Price in other shops:
Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War IIby Joshua B. Freeman
New Press; Published: 2001-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.17
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depressionby The Honorable Richard A. Posner
Harvard University Press; Published: 2009-05-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $14.62
Price in other shops:
A Brief History of Neoliberalismby David Harvey
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 2007-01-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.92
Price in other shops:
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977--1978by Michel Foucault
Picador; Published: 2009-02-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.08
Price in other shops:
Transforming the City: Community Organizing the the Challenge of Political Change (Studies in Government and Public Policy)University Press of Kansas; Published: 2007-04-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.99
Price in other shops:
There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America (Vintage)by William Julius Wilson, Richard P. Taub
Vintage; Published: 2007-10-09; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.16
Price in other shops:
U. S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Belowby Kim Moody
Verso; Published: 2007-09-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.49
Price in other shops:
The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable Cityby Robert Gottlieb, Regina Freer, Mark Vallianatos, Peter Dreier
University of California Press; Published: 2006-08-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.25
Price in other shops:
Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Urban and Industrial Environments)by Julie Sze
The MIT Press; Published: 2006-12-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.48
Price in other shops:
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives)by Thomas J. Sugrue
Princeton University Press; Published: 2005-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $23.66
Price in other shops:
Planet of Slumsby Mike Davis
Verso; Published: 2007-09-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.47
Price in other shops: