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Bookmark or Share- The Code of Capital | Princeton University PressIn this revealing 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.
- Opinion | A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth ...A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises. The legal scholar Katharina Pistor examines the hidden legal layer propping up our modern economic system ...
- Katharina Pistor - Institute for New Economic ThinkingPistor is the author or co-author of nine books. Her most recent book, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality , examines how assets such as land, private debt, business organizations, or knowledge are transformed into capital through contract law, property rights, collateral law, and trust, corporate, and bankruptcy law.
- Katharina Pistor | Columbia Law SchoolKatharina Pistor is a leading scholar and writer on corporate governance, money and finance, property rights, and comparative law and legal institutions. She is the author or co-author of nine books.
- Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and ...In this book Katharina Pistor provides a refreshing theory of the roles of law in capitalism, that is, in creating wealth and inequality. Pistor’s approach resonates with the old institutionalists in how it places legal institutions as central to the functioning of capitalism.
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