1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830608503321

Titolo

The Blackwell companion to the economics of housing [[electronic resource] ] : the housing wealth of nations / / edited by Susan J. Smith, Beverley A. Searle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, c2010

ISBN

1-78268-331-3

1-282-49124-5

9786612491245

1-4051-9708-0

1-4443-1797-0

1-4443-1798-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (649 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to contemporary economics ; ; 5

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithSusan <1956->

SearleBeverley A

Disciplina

333.33/8

333.338

Soggetti

Housing

Housing - Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Banking on Housing; Editorial; Chapter 2 Housing and Mortgage Markets: An OECD Perspective; Chapter 3 Is Housing Wealth an ""ATM""?: International Trends; Chapter 4 Housing Wealth Effects and Course of the US Economy: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications; Chapter 5 The Rise in Home Prices and Household Debt in the UK: Potential Causes and Implications; Chapter 6 Housing Wealth and Mortgage Debt in Australia

Chapter 7 A Survey of Housing Equity Withdrawal and Injection in AustraliaChapter 8 What do we Know about Equity Withdrawal by Households in New Zealand?; Chapter 9 What Happened to the Housing System?; Part II Housing Wealth As A Financial Buffer; Editorial; Chapter 10 Trading on Housing Wealth: Political Risk in an Aging Society;



Chapter 11 Housing Equity Withdrawal and Retirement: Evidence from the Household, Income, and Labor Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA); Chapter 12 Housing Market, Wealth, and ""Self-Insurance"" in Spain

Chapter 13 Housing Wealth: A Safety Net of Last Resort? Findings from a European StudyChapter 14 ""Pots of Gold"": Housing Wealth and Economic Wellbeing in Australia; Chapter 15 Housing Wealth as Insurance: Insights from the UK; Chapter 16 Housing to Manage Debt and Family Care in the USA; Chapter 17 The Subprime State of Race; Chapter 18 The Housing Finance Revolution; Part III Mitigating Housing Risks; Editorial; Chapter 19 How Housing Busts End: Home Prices, User Cost, and Rigidities During Down Cycles

Chapter 20 Is there a Role for Shared Equity Products in Twenty-First Century Housing? Experience in Australia and the UKChapter 21 Trading on Home Price Risk: Index Derivatives and Home Equity Insurance; Chapter 22 Hedging Housing Risk: A Financial Markets Perspective; Chapter 23 Hedging Housing Risk: Is it Feasible?; Chapter 24 Housing Risk and Property Derivatives: The Role of Financial Engineering; Chapter 25 Housing Futures: A Role for Derivatives?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing will help students and professionals alike to explore key elements of the housing economy: home prices, housing wealth, mortgage debt, and financial risk. Features 24 original essays, including an editorial introduction and three section overviewsIncludes 39 world-class authors from a mix of educational and financial organizations in the UK, Europe, Australia, and North AmericaBroadly-based, scholarly, and accessible, serving students and professionals who wish to understand how today's housin



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968970703321

Autore

Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi

Titolo

Advaita epistemology and metaphysics : an outline of Indian non-realism / / Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2002

ISBN

1-136-86897-6

1-138-87894-4

1-315-02939-1

1-136-86890-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Disciplina

181.482

Soggetti

Advaita

Knowledge, Theory of

Metaphysics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Sankara : externality -- section 2. Vacaspati : determinacy -- section 3. Sri Harsa : existence -- section 4. Applying non-realism.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'. This is the view that an independent, external world must be assumed if the features of cognition are to be explained, but that it cannot be proved that there is such a world, independently of an appeal to cognition itself. This position is constructed