Katharina Pistor
Katharina Pistor is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the co-editor of Governing Access to Essential Resources.
Katharina Pistor is Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the co-editor of Governing Access to Essential Resources.
The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen asserted that famines don't happen in democracies, because the government is accountable to its citizens – a dictum that should also apply to water. But, as the recent r… read more
Presiding over Germany’s unification in the nineteenth century, Otto von Bismarck demonstrated how to use crises to force his preferred outcome – a practice that the leaders of Europe’s creditor count… read more
Six of the world's major central banks recently announced that they had made their swap lines permanent, giving one another unlimited access to their respective currencies. But, even if these central … read more
Over-reliance on debt finance has strained the fabric of the democracies that it has helped to fund, with government finance increasingly determined not by electoral cycles and political deliberation, but b… read more
The European Union, heeding calls for more effective financial regulation, has just unveiled a plan for a new pan-European watchdog. But, by retaining the principle that financial institutions' home c… read more
