Building cycles : growth & instability

Resource Information

The work Building cycles : growth & instability represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Building cycles : growth & instability

Title remainder

growth & instability

Statement of responsibility

Richard Barras

Creator

• Barras, Richard

Subject

• Cities and towns -- Growth
• Community development, Urban
• Business cycles
• Real property -- Valuation
• Construction industry

Language

eng

Summary

The global economic crisis of 2008 was precipitated by a housing market crash, thus highlighting the destabilizing influence of the property cycle upon the wider economy. This timely book by a world authority explores why cycles occur and how they affect the behaviour of real estate markets. The central argument put forward is that growth and instability are inextricably linked, and that building investment acts both as a key driver of growth and as the source of the most volatile cyclical fluctuations in an economy. The role of building cycles in both economic growth and urban development i

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

307.76

Index

index present

LC call number

HT153

LC item number

.B3435 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography

Series statement

Real estate issues