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Shut Out provides a much-needed correction to the causes and consequences of financial crises and secular stagnation.
List of contents
Introduction 1
Part I: The Things
We Didn't
Know and the Things
We Knew
That Just Weren't
So
Chapter 1: High Home Prices Are Caused by Limited Supply 13
Chapter 2: Our Unexceptional Bubble
43
Chapter 3: A Tale of Credit 67
Part II: What Really
Happened
Chapter 4: How Rising Prices Cause More Rising Prices 91
Chapter 5: Migration and Contagion Cities 109
Part III: Symptoms of the Urban Housing Shortage
Chapter 6: Closed Access to Labor
139
Chapter 7: Broader Economic Implications
of Closed Access Cities 149
Chapter 8: Closed Access and International Trade 181
Chapter 9: A Moral Panic and a Financial Crisis 199
Epilogue 221
Appendix: Home Prices 243
Notes 273
About the Author 307
Acknowledgments 307
About the author
Kevin Erdmann was a small business owner for 17 years. In 2010, he sold his business and earned his master’s degree in finance from the University of Arizona, which grounded his real-world experience of investing in the rigor of the academy. In 2013, he began blogging at idiosyncraticwhisk.com to share his contrarian observations about investment strategies and research. He was surprised to uncover evidence that seemed to contradict conventional narrative and common assumptions about the housing bubble and the financial crisis. As the evidence accumulated, he developed a new account of the causes of the housing bubble and financial crisis. That account eventually became a two-book project, Shut Out and a follow-up book still in development, both of which synthesize and expand on the housing theories he originally published on his blog. He lives in Gilbert, Arizona, with his wife and three children.
Summary
Shut Out provides a much-needed correction to the causes and consequences of financial crises and secular stagnation.
