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The Code of Capital

The Code of Capital

How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

by Katharina Pistor
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/11/2020

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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.

ISBN:
9780691208602
9780691208602
Category:
Law & society
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-11-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
234x150x15mm
Weight:
0.67kg
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.

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