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The Code of Capital Katharina Pistor

The Code of Capital By Katharina Pistor

The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor


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The Code of Capital Summary

The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor

A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealth

What is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise to pay into an asset that creates wealth? Katharina Pistor explains how, behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, capital is created-and why this little-known activity is one of the biggest reasons for the widening wealth gap between the holders of capital and everybody else. A powerful new way of thinking about one of the most pernicious problems of our time, The Code of Capital explores the various ways that debt, complex financial products, and other assets are selectively coded to protect and reproduce private wealth. This provocative book paints a troubling portrait of the pervasive global nature of the code, the people who shape it, and the governments that enforce it.

The Code of Capital Reviews

One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Economics
One of the Financial Times' Readers' Best Books of 2019
One of Business Insider's Richard Feloni's best books of 2019 on how we can rethink today's capitalism and improve the economy
A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019

About Katharina Pistor

Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law and director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia Law School. Her books include Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World. Twitter @KatharinaPistor

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NGR9780691208602
9780691208602
0691208603
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
New
Paperback
Princeton University Press
2020-11-03
320
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