The Code of Capital
How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Autor*in: Pistor, Katharina
Jahr: 2019
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 320 S.
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- Inhalt:
- "Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and why this little-known fact is one of the biggest reasons for the widening wealth gap between the holders of capital and everybody else. In this ... book, Katharina Pistor argues that the law selectively "codes" certain assets, endowing them with the capacity to protect and produce private wealth. With the right legal coding, any object, claim, or idea can be turned into capital - and lawyers are the keepers of the code. Pistor describes how they pick and choose among different legal systems and legal devices for the ones that best serve their clients' needs, and how techniques that were first perfected centuries ago to code landholdings as capital are being used today to code stocks, bonds, ideas, and even expectations--assets that exist only in law."--Provided by publisher.
- Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law and director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia Law School. She is the coauthor of Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal about Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World and the coeditor of Governing Access to Essential Resources. She lives in New York City.
Titelinformationen
Titel: The Code of Capital
Autor*in: Pistor, Katharina
Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
ISBN: 9780691189437
Kategorie: Sachmedien & Ratgeber, Wirtschaft & Unternehmen
Max. Ausleihdauer: 14 Tage