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Abstract

This paper argues that a new ‘domestic regime’ has taken hold in Anglo-American economies since 2008. The combination of austere fiscal policy and loose monetary policy produced sustained house-price inflation in an otherwise stagnant economy. This combined with broadband-enabled digital platforms, a highly flexible labour market, and a routinely undervalued social reproductive sector transformed how capitalism operates in these economies. Taking the United Kingdom as a central case, our goal in this paper is to articulate what constitutes a ‘domestic regime’, and to locate this concept within wider sociological and political-economic debates. To adequately grasp the contemporary regime, we suggest that it needs to be considered in all its multifaceted, interlocking dimensions: the financial, the infrastructural, the reproductive and the productive.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article that will be published by Taylor & Francis in Economy and Society, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/RESO
Publisher Keywords:	home; housing; asset; platforms; regimes; COVID
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Departments:	School of Policy & Global Affairs School of Policy & Global Affairs > International Politics
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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