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Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh and Bart Wissink: Cities and the super-rich: real estate, elite practices and urban political economies

Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2017, hardcover €90.09, ISBN 978-1-137-55715-5

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  1. This is one of the reasons my colleagues and I, building on Savage (2015) and Van der Pijl (1998), prefer ‘transnational wealth elites’ (Fernandez et al. 2016) over ‘super-rich’.

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Aalbers, M.B. Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh and Bart Wissink: Cities and the super-rich: real estate, elite practices and urban political economies. J Hous and the Built Environ 33, 941–943 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-017-9581-2

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