In this, his classic book on the informal economy of Peru and the reasons why poverty can be a breeding ground for terrorists, Hernando De Soto describes the forces that keep people dependent on underground economies: the bureaucratic barriers to legal property ownership and the lack of legal struct[...]
A distinguished Third World economist takes a close-up look at why capitalism succeeds in some countries and fails in others, arguing that the key to its success is related to the legal structure of property and property rights. Reprint. 35,000 firstA distinguished Third World economist takes a clos[...]
Hernando de Soto offers radical and yet convincing arguments on the reasons why capitalism only seems to work in some nations, mainly the ones in the northern hemisphere, and fails consistently in the rest of the world.[...]
From 1539 to 1542 Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast from Florida to the Mississippi River. The eighteen contributors to this volume-anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and literary critics-investigate broad cultural and literary a[...]
Problemet för världens alla fattiga är inte fattigdom i första hand. Det är inte så att de fattiga saknar egendom, men denna egendom är inte ordentligt och enhetligt registrerad, vilket gör att den inte går att använda på en fungerande marknad. De fattigas egendom går därför inte att o[...]