10/ Towards the end she also brings up the part I have spoken about in a Norwegian context (she talks about it in a British context): that the Norwegian Labour Party has also adopted the same economic model as the Norwegian Conservative Party (neither as extreme as in the UK or the US), but with the result that no matter how you vote you get what I believe I referred to as different shades of off-white on the same chair.
15/ He has actually mentioned Norway in this chapter, and since as a Norwegian I am obsessed with foreigners that know we exist, I have to point that out. What he referred to was the Norwegian housing bubble that burst in the late 1980s. Article here in Norwegian: https://www.nrk.no/norge/boligpriser-gjennom-200-ar-1.8273402
12/ First annoyance, he did the whole “frontier land is free” thing that Piketty also did, and seriously, that you steal something doesn’t make it free, but it does make you a thief.
13/ Chapter 1 seems to be about the “economics of home ownership” not sure where he will take that, but it reminded be of a thing I’ve thought about over the years: that the “value” of your home (if you are a homeowner) is largely theoretical as long as you live in it. There have however been some ways for you to live in your home and still get use from your “capital gain”, for example you might get a lower interest rate or more directly you can often borrow against it or use it as collateral.
11/ Back to the book. He continues to be very explicit in saying that the mechanism of “crisis as an opportunity for radical change” can be used by the left if they are prepared. Maybe this is a well known mechanism in economics?