Description
Product ID: | 9780552999236 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Mystery Of Capital |
Authors: | Author: Hernando De Soto |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Economic history, Economic history |
Description: | Select Guide Rating But if the criteria for joining that exclusive club is a capacity not only to change permanently the way we look at the world, but also to change the world itself, then there are good grounds for thinking that this book is surely a contender.' Donald Macintyre, The Independent'Few people in Britain have heard of Hernando de Soto . 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 and why it has failed to benefit four-fifths of mankind -- and explains the solution. |
Imprint Name: | Black Swan |
Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2001-11-01 |