The Invisible Code of Capitalism w/ Katharina Pistor

Capitalism could not exist without the power and structure of the law - that’s the simple but radical argument made by my guest today, Katharina Pistor, law professor at Columbia University, and the author of The Code of Capital: How The Law Creates Wealth and Inequality.
On today’s episode, we break down how the law ‘encodes’ capital and invisibly structures our world, from giving corporations the rights of a person, to obscure treaties that allow fossil fuel giants to sue governments when they attempt to act on climate. Ultimately, I ask Katharina whether the law can be harnessed as a force for progress on climate and ecological crisis, and what needs to change to break the legal deadlock.
Katharina Pistor is a professor at Columbia University Law School, where she is the Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation. She is the author of several celebrated books, most recently of The Code of Capital (Princeton University Press).
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[@stl1321]

Great. The other thread is that corporations capture the political parties in many countries where it has to do with laws that will affect them so the state is synonymous with corporate interests in many countries

[@tomh5094]

The book technofeudalism by yanis varoufakis is worth a read. He implies that's already happened in most western countries.

[@farinshore8900]

Should there not be a distinction between capitalism and corporatism. There is a world of difference between a family farm and a multi-national corporation - particularly in terms of liability.

[@kaosumaru]

Yea, the government complex thinks family farms are a threat to the environment and multinational corporate Industrial farms are safe and effective.

[@KenEze-k6k]

Capitalism of course being a vague mortal enemy you choose to be whatever suits your narrative and self interest at any given moment.

[@sudd3660]

said a random uneducated UA-cam comment.

[@KenEze-k6k]

@@sudd3660 Worthless response.

[@sudd3660]

@@KenEze-k6k that was what i meant, but i was a bit more personal about it.
comment sections is not as place to learn or get educated. just argue and get nowhere....
and both of us are not making any difference.

[@KenEze-k6k]

@@sudd3660 That was your intention in the first place to subvert my comment, call it pointless rather than actually participate and ponder on what I had to say. I guess your pseudo-religion in communism is more important than learning and developing in life.