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Residential Capitalism: Rent Extraction and Capitalist Production in Modern Spain (1833–2023) (2024)
Book
Moreno Zacares, J. (2024). Residential Capitalism: Rent Extraction and Capitalist Production in Modern Spain (1833–2023). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003212126

Over the last decade, Spain has become an emblem of the contradictory relationship between capitalism and housing. During the house-price boom of the 2000s, Spain built homes on an unprecedented scale, with output levels that overshadowed those of ev... Read More about Residential Capitalism: Rent Extraction and Capitalist Production in Modern Spain (1833–2023).

Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework (2024)
Journal Article
Moreno Zacarés, J. (2024). Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework. Housing, Theory and Society, 41(1), 4-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2023.2292567

Although housing plays a pivotal role in global capitalism, the theoretical links between housing research and political economy remain tenuous. Building on the recent revival of rent theory, this article fleshes out a political economy framework for... Read More about Residential Accumulation: A Political Economy Framework.

The Iron Triangle of Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Political Economy of Urban Corruption in Spain (2020)
Journal Article
Moreno Zacarés, J. (2020). The Iron Triangle of Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Political Economy of Urban Corruption in Spain. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 52(5), 1351-1372. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12637

Despite a cascade of corruption scandals over the last decade, the role of political corruption has yet to be accounted for in the scholarship on Spanish urban entrepreneurialism. This is an omission that extends to the broader literature on the topi... Read More about The Iron Triangle of Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Political Economy of Urban Corruption in Spain.

The Catalan Transition to Capitalism
Book Chapter
Moreno Zacarés, J. The Catalan Transition to Capitalism. In X. Lafrance, & C. Post (Eds.), Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism. Palgrave Macmillan