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On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales



who has access to and control over the legal code and its masters:
Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Realizing the centrality and power of law for coding capital has important implications for understanding the political economy of capitalism.
Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
For centuries, private attorneys have molded and adapted these legal modules to a changing roster of assets and have thereby enhanced their clients’ wealth. And states have supported the coding of capital by offering their coercive law powers to enforce the legal rights that have been bestowed on capital.
Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Many legal scholars have already drawn attention to the fact that the operation of the market hinges on legal institutions that facilitate price discovery.