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The Bonds of Inequality

Debt and the Making of the American City
  • Destin Jenkins
2021
The University of Chicago Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • A Bank of America branch in San Francisco.
    Book Review

    Bond Villains

    Municipal governments today hold around $4 trillion in outstanding debt. The growing costs of simply servicing their debt is cannibalizing their annual budgets.
    by Clark Randall via Boston Review on August 16, 2023
  • Collage of four images related to urban development. Clockwise from left: photo of Ralph Nader, 1975. [Library of Congress] Aerial view of the Appalachia Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority [Tennessee Valley Authority, public domain] Edward Logue, at a hearing of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, 1965. [Digital Commonwealth, License CC 4.0] Hunters Point, San Francisco, ca. 1969. [San Francisco Public Library, public domain]
    Book Review

    Public Interests

    Three books offer views of the shift from public planning to neoliberal privatization, and emphasize the need to reclaim planning in the public interest.
    by Garrett Dash Nelson via Places Journal on April 19, 2022
  • Aerial photograph of San Francisco, 1906.
    Book Review

    How Private Capital Strangled Our Cities

    By following the money, a new history of urban inequality turns our attention away from federal malfeasance and toward capital markets and financial instruments.
    by Samuel Zipp via The Nation on January 4, 2022
  • Formal portrait photo of Destin Jenkins.
    Q&A

    Public Thinker: Destin Jenkins on Breaking Bonds

    “What if we identified the politics of municipal debt as circumscribing political horizons and futures?”
    by Destin Jenkins, Hannah Appel via Public Books on December 13, 2021
  • "Law and Political Economy Project" logo.
    Book Review

    Public Money without Public Goods

    By documenting how public debt produced our present nightmare, Destin Jenkins allows us to dream about using public money to mend the ills of our era.
    by David Stein via LPE Project on August 19, 2021
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