A review by beataf
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor

informative slow-paced

4.0

The audiobook is awful and took me a full year to listen through. But this book presents a really illuminating thread of the structure of economic power in our society - that what we call modernization is a repackaging of power via law to serve capital, and the triumph of incremental increases to protecting capital that have left those outside these power structures increasingly without. I don't think her solutions section was too helpful in terms of presenting some impossible, theoretical, radical alternatives to current society. But the historical perspective and thread that A. this has been building for several centuries, and B. it's qualitatively worse and more captured now than  it has been for a while, and the societal dangerous in that, are helpful.