Inequality emerged after the French Revolution, and again after the postwar boom, because our institutions have been hardwired to serve capital.
Katharina Pistor
Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and director of the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her most recent book is The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Princeton University Press, 2019). (Author photograph by Barbara Alper) 