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The Resource The mystery of capital : why captitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else, Hernando de Soto

The mystery of capital : why captitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else, Hernando de Soto

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"Five years ago, Hernando de Soto and his research team closed their books and opened their eyes. They went into the streets of developing and former communist nations to learn what real people are achieving inside and outside the underground economy. Their findings are dramatic. The data they have collected demonstrate that the world's poor have accumulated all the assets needed for successful capitalism." "Why then are these countries so underdeveloped? Why can't they turn these assets into liquid capital - the kind of capital that generates new wealth? De Soto reminds us that the present global crisis is the same kind of crisis that the advanced nations suffered during the Industrial Revolution, when they themselves were Third World countries teeming with black markets, pervasive mafias, widespread poverty and flagrant disregard of the law. The Western nations, he argues, created the key conversion process 150 years ago, and their Economies began to soar into wealth without their ever realizing what they had done. De Soto explains how this unwitting process, hidden deep in thousands of pieces of property law throughout the West, came to be, how it works, and how today it can be deliberately set up in developing and former communist nations."--BOOK JACKET
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eng
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Publication
Extent
1 online resource (276 pages
Contents
  • The five mysteries of capital
  • The mystery of missing information
  • The mystery of capital
  • The mystery of political awareness
  • The missing lessons of U.S. history
  • The mystery of legal failure
  • By way of conclusion
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The mystery of capital : why captitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else
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The mystery of capital
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why captitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else
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Hernando de Soto
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Language
eng
Summary
"Five years ago, Hernando de Soto and his research team closed their books and opened their eyes. They went into the streets of developing and former communist nations to learn what real people are achieving inside and outside the underground economy. Their findings are dramatic. The data they have collected demonstrate that the world's poor have accumulated all the assets needed for successful capitalism." "Why then are these countries so underdeveloped? Why can't they turn these assets into liquid capital - the kind of capital that generates new wealth? De Soto reminds us that the present global crisis is the same kind of crisis that the advanced nations suffered during the Industrial Revolution, when they themselves were Third World countries teeming with black markets, pervasive mafias, widespread poverty and flagrant disregard of the law. The Western nations, he argues, created the key conversion process 150 years ago, and their Economies began to soar into wealth without their ever realizing what they had done. De Soto explains how this unwitting process, hidden deep in thousands of pieces of property law throughout the West, came to be, how it works, and how today it can be deliberately set up in developing and former communist nations."--BOOK JACKET
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1941-
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Soto, Hernando de
Dewey number
330.12/2
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
HB501
LC item number
S778 2000
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Capitalism
  • Capitalisme
  • Kapitalisme
  • Ontwikkelingsproblematiek
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The mystery of capital : why captitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else, Hernando de Soto
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
The five mysteries of capital -- The mystery of missing information -- The mystery of capital -- The mystery of political awareness -- The missing lessons of U.S. history -- The mystery of legal failure -- By way of conclusion
Extent
1 online resource (276 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1036792421
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The mystery of capital : why captitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else, Hernando de Soto
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
The five mysteries of capital -- The mystery of missing information -- The mystery of capital -- The mystery of political awareness -- The missing lessons of U.S. history -- The mystery of legal failure -- By way of conclusion
Extent
1 online resource (276 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1036792421

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