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The Asset Economy
Property Ownership and the New Logic of Inequality
Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings
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Copyright © Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings 2020
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First published in 2020 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4345-8
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Names: Adkins, Lisa, 1966- author. | Konings, Martijn, 1975- author. | Cooper, Melinda, author.
Title: The asset economy : property ownership and the new logic of inequality / Lisa Adkins, Martijn Konings and Melinda Cooper.
Description: Medford : Polity Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “How assets dictate the new class system”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020013339 (print) | LCCN 2020013340 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509543458 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509543465 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509543472 (epub) | ISBN 9781509544226 (adobe pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Home ownership--Social aspects. | Generation Y--Social conditions. | Social stratification. | Finance--Social aspects. | Time--Social aspects.
Classification: LCC HD7287.8 .A35 2020 (print) | LCC HD7287.8 (ebook) | DDC 306.3--dc23
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Preface
The collaboration that led to the writing of this book emerged out of the convergence of ideas from our individual work. Each of our recent books (Adkins’ The Time of