The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

摘要: Why does capitalism triumph in the West but fail almost everywhere else? Elegantly, and with rare clarity, Hernando de Soto revolutionizes our understanding of what capital is why it has failed to benefit four-fifths mankind -- explains solution. 'A revolutionary book ...may not be class Das Kapital, Adam Smith's Wealth Nations or Keynes's General Theory. But if criteria for joining that exclusive club a capacity only change permanently way we look at world, also world itself, then there are good grounds thinking this surely contender.' Donald Macintyre, The Independent 'Few people Britain have heard ...but Mystery Capital already led cognoscenti put him pantheon great progressive intellectuals age.' Mark Leonard, New Statesman crucial contribution. A new proposal valid whole world' - Javier Perez Cuellar (Former Secretary United Nations)