Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by Hernando de Soto
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“Simpler things of governance are complex to our leaders. Any serious leader who has read Hernando De Soto's book, 'The Mystery of Capital': How Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else' would understand how to leverage property to create wealth”
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"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of fourfifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the worldfamous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is central to one of the most crucial problems the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Economic Development, Most Recommended Books, and Finance.
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“Simpler things of governance are complex to our leaders. Any serious leader who has read Hernando De Soto's book, 'The Mystery of Capital': How Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else' would understand how to leverage property to create wealth”
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