The Code of Capital - Katharina Pistor

The Code of Capital

How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20860-2 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 0-691-20860-3 / 0691208603
ISBN-13 978-0-691-20860-2 / 9780691208602
Zustand Neuware
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