
How ‘Big Law’ Makes Big Money
Katharina Pistor’s ‘The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality’
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
by Katharina Pistor
February 13, 2020 issue
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Adam Tooze is the Director of the European Institute at Columbia. He is the author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World and is currently working on an economic history of the climate emergency. (February 2020)
How ‘Big Law’ Makes Big Money
Katharina Pistor’s ‘The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality’
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
by Katharina Pistor
February 13, 2020 issue
Democracy and Its Discontents
Four books on the slide toward illiberalism
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
by Yascha Mounk
How Democracies Die
by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
by Timothy Snyder
How Democracy Ends
by David Runciman
June 6, 2019 issue
A Modern Greek Tragedy
‘Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment’ by Yanis Varoufakis
Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
by Yanis Varoufakis
March 8, 2018 issue
When We Loved Mussolini
Gian Giacomo Migone’s ‘The United States and Fascist Italy: The Rise of American Finance in Europe’
The United States and Fascist Italy: The Rise of American Finance in Europe
by Gian Giacomo Migone, translated from the Italian and with a preface by Molly Tambor
August 18, 2016 issue
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