As someone who has been homeless on multiple occasions, housing is an issue that I find to be extremely important. The typical view of how to help people achieve and maintain housing is one of homeless shelters, transitional housing, welfare programs, public housing, landlords, predatory bank loans, mortgages, evictions, and artificial scarcity. So how do…

Kevin Carson. Supply and Demand: A Quibble. May 20th, 2023. Ши Санаязи из Хэмптонского института утверждает «Жилищный Рынок Определяется Классовой Властью и Прибылью, а Не «Спросом и Предложением»: «Правда в том, что… наши условия как арендаторов определяются балансом классовых сил, а не балансом спроса и предложения». Конечно, я знаю, что они имеют в виду. В…

In a way, the theory of supply and demand explains prices. But in another, more accurate way, bargaining theory explains prices.  The idea that the prices of commodities are determined by the bargaining power of the buying and selling parties is not new, having been raised in the nineteenth century, but it does not play…

Kevin Carson. Article original: “Supply and Demand:” A Quibble, 20 mai 2019. Traduction française par Éléazar. À l’Institut Hampton, Shi Sanyazi soutient que « Le prix du logement est déterminé par le rapport de classe et le profit, et non par « l’offre et la demande » » : En verité… notre condition en tant…

Di Kevin Carson. Originale pubblicato il 20 maggio 2023 con il titolo “Supply and Demand”: A Quibble. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Scrive Shi Sanyazi sul sito del Hampton Institute: “I prezzi delle case dipendono dai poteri di classe e dal profitto, non dalla domanda ed offerta”: La verità è che…, in quanto affittuari, dipendiamo dall’equilibrio…

At the Hampton Institute, Shi Sanyazi argues that “Housing is Determined By Class Power and Profit, Not ‘Supply and Demand’”:  “The truth is that… our conditions as tenants are determined by the balance of class power, not the balance of supply and demand.  I know what they mean, of course. In the economic discourse between…