The BREAK—DOWN
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The Invisible Code of Capitalism

Breaking down how the law structures the global economy, shelters corporations from accountability and stalls climate action.

With Katharina Pistor

Capitalism could not exist without the power and structure of the law — that is the simple but radical argument made by this episode's esteemed guest Katharina Pistor, Law professor at Columbia University and the author of The Code of Capital: How The Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Princeton University Press). 

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