Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Rex McKenzie
AI shatters the pretence that academic polish was ever anything but gatekeeping
Universities are punishing students for doing what journals like Nature and Science explicitly permit their authors to do. This isn’t confusion, it’s gatekeeping masquerading as pedagogy. And in the gap between what universities demand and what the professional academic world has already accepted, we can see the death throes of an entire model of knowledge production.
Applying the global wealth chain typology to property purchases in the Liverpool and Merseyside Area
Introduction Existing theories of finance generally focus on deposit-taking institutions, equities trading and price formation, and underline the market-completing and welfare-enhancing functions provided by financial innovations (Allen and Santomero, 1997). We seek to go further and get behind the veils that mask the play of capital across nations, regions and urban areas, much of it orchestrated from offshore locations.
Offshore property ownership in Liverpool and Merseyside: the chains dragging value from depressed city economies
28 June, 2021 28 June, 2021 New research by Rex McKenzie and Rowland Atkinson shows the scale of inward offshore investment into Liverpool and the effects in the city. We have recently been working with Land Registry data on Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales. This fascinating data offers a glimpse into the private, offshore companies that own property in England and Wales.
Book review: Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell
Book review: Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell by Stuart Hodkinson and reviewed by Neil Gray Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019; 272 pp.: 978-1-5261-2998-7, £11.99 (pbk). Stuart Hodkinson’s Safe as Houses provides a vital fine-grained account of processes of privatisation, outsourcing and deregulation in UK public housing since 1979.
The onshore urban impacts of offshore property investors
This blog has been cross-posted from the Urban Studies Journal blog. Wealth, inequality, tax invasion – all are at the forefront of public concern about where many societies are going, and how cities are being reshaped today. We came to these issues by serendipity, a realisation that we could use a new, open database to understand how offshore wealth systems, designed to minimise tax and maximise capital returns, are being used to invest in cities like London.
Anchoring capital in place: The grounded impact of international wealth chains on housing markets in London
Introduction The machine fuelled by property investment and international wealth has had the effect of shifting the role of homes into assets more often traded for capital accumulation. In this article, we argue that houses are more likely to be used in this way where significant incentives exist for the wealthy, and the funds that they invest in, to purchase, manipulate and accumulate property in urban land markets.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Rex
Contact Rex, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack