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

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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality is a scholarly book that explains how legal institutions and instruments are used to turn assets into capital, thereby shaping global wealth distribution and reinforcing economic inequality.

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instanceOf book
non-fiction book
scholarly work
argument inequality is produced and reinforced by legal design
legal systems privilege certain asset holders
private law enables wealth protection and accumulation
author Katharina Pistor
centralThesis law is used to code assets as capital
legal coding of assets shapes wealth distribution
private law is a key infrastructure of capitalism
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
exploresConcept bankruptcy law
collateral law
corporate law
derivatives
legal coding of capital
offshore financial centers
role of lawyers in creating capital
securitization
trusts
focusesOn Anglo-American legal tradition
global financial markets
genre economic sociology
law
political economy
hasFormat audiobook
ebook
hardcover
paperback
intendedAudience general readers interested in political economy
policy makers
scholars
students
language English
notableFor critique of legal foundations of inequality
interdisciplinary analysis of law and capitalism
publicationDate 2019
publisher Princeton University Press
subject assetization
capitalism
financial law
global finance
inequality
legal institutions
private law
property law
wealth distribution

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