The construction of investor-subjects in a housing-led growth society: the case of Hong Kong.
The question of how investor-subjects are constructed in a financialized society is rarely examined by empirical data in the literature of financialization. This study examines the role of perception of housing in the culture of financialization, with the data of a population survey in Hong Kong (N...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Journal Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 381 - 399 |
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