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On January 13, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, in partnership with Princeton University Press, hosted a virtual book talk and discussion of The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, written by Columbia Law School Professor Katharina Pistor.
This event featured a conversation between Professor Pistor and Professor Xin DAI of Peking University Law School on how the law shapes the distribution of wealth.
About the Book
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.