- Editorial:
- TANTOR
- Año de edición:
- 2003
- Materia:
- Literatura contemporánea en español
- ISBN:
- 978-0-465-01615-0
- Páginas:
- 288
- Encuadernación:
- Tapa blanda
MYSTERY OF CAPITAL: WHY CAPITALISM TRIUMPHS IN THE WEST AND FAILS EVERYWHERE ELSE
WHY CAPITALISM TRIUMPHS IN THE WEST AND FAILS EVERYWHERE ELSE
HERNANDO DE SOTO
u003cbu003eA renowned economist's classic book on capitalism in the developing world, showing how property rights are the key to overcoming povertyu003c/bu003e u003cbru003e"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In u003ciu003eThe Mystery of Capitalu003c/iu003e, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up one of the most pressing questions the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail?u003cbru003eIn strong opposition to the popular view that success is determined by cultural differences, de Soto finds that it actually has everything to do with the legal structure of property and property rights. Every developed nation in the world at one time went through the transformation from predominantly extralegal property arrangements, such as squatting on large estates, to a formal, unified legal property system. In the West we've forgotten that creating this system is what allowed people everywhere to leverage property into wealth. This persuasive book revolutionized our understanding of capital and points the way to a major transformation of the world economy.
