The Legal Gift that Keeps on Grifting
Dec 15, 2021 shows how corporations are awarding shareholders through jurisdictional arbitrage, rather than real returns.
Katharina Pistor
Katharina Pistor, Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, is the author of The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality (Princeton University Press, 2019).
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