Audiobooks by Katharina Pistor

[Spanish] - El código del capital

El capitalismo está codificado por abogados. Esta es la conclusión a la que ha llegado la jurista Katharina Pistor. El empresario multimillonario y la gran fábrica como imagen del capitalismo es posible que esté desfasada. Hoy en día la producción industrial ha perdido su hegemonía frente al sector financiero, un sector que conoce bien las reglas del juego, porque muchas de ellas las ha fomentado. La ley está configurada para crear desigualdad. Las grandes corporaciones y las clases más acomodadas establecen condiciones favorables para los más poderosos de forma contractual. El Estado protege el código del libre mercado, un código que en un futuro cercano podría ser sustituido por algoritmos. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Katharina Pistor (1963) es una jurista alemana. Es profesora de Derecho en la Facultad de Derecho de Columbia, en Nueva York, y directora del Law Schoolʼs Center on Global Legal Transformation. Se ha especializado en el estudio de las diferentes legislaciones a propósito de la creación de la riqueza y las desigualdades económicas.

Katharina Pistor (Author), Marta Barriuso (Narrator)

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

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 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. 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. A powerful new way of thinking about one of the most pernicious problems of our time, The Code of Capital explores the different ways that debt, complex financial products, and other assets are coded to give financial advantage to their holders.

Katharina Pistor (Author), Laural Merlington (Narrator)

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