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New in The New Statesman
A Review of Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution

In a recent article for The New Statesman, William Davies reviews Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Fiance by Melinda Cooper. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:

“The status of real estate, housing especially, in contemporary capitalism is so prominent and divisive and sucks up so much of our attention that it can sometimes be hard to get any critical distance on this madness. The vote for Brexit was ultimately a vote by homeowners; rates of depression and anxiety are far higher among renters than among owners; intergenerational relations are being transformed in the desperate hunt for housing security and housing equity. So much now seems to hang on it that it can be hard to find the concepts and narratives to account for this state of affairs. Counterrevolution provides an exemplary history of ideas and elites, but in foregrounding the asset form with which we are most intimately connected, it also offers a crucial history of our unhappy present that makes complete sense.”