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100 1 _aSoto, Hernando de,
_d1941-
245 1 4 _aThe mystery of capital :
_bwhy capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else /
_cHernando de Soto.
260 _aNew York :
_bBasic Books,
_cc2000.
300 _a276 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index.
505 0 0 _gCh. 1.
_tThe Five Mysteries of Capital --
_gCh. 2.
_tThe Mystery of Missing Information --
_gCh. 3.
_tThe Mystery of Capital --
_gCh. 4.
_tThe Mystery of Political Awareness --
_gCh. 5.
_tThe Missing Lessons of U.S. History --
_gCh. 6.
_tThe Mystery of Legal Failure --
_gCh. 7.
_tBy Way of Conclusion.
520 1 _a"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.".
520 8 _a"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.
520 8 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aCapitalism.
900 _bTOC
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