hernando de soto
No mystery why Capitalism has failed there
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006Guy Kawasaki links to a World Bank report called Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs, described as: … the third in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 155 countriesâ€â€from Afghanistan to [...]
Another Manifold Mystery
Thursday, May 26th, 2005“In the midst of [the] poorest neighborhoods and shantytowns, there are … trillions of dollars, all ready to be put to use if only the mystery of how assets are transformed into live capital can be unraveled.” – Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital (Basic Books, 2000), p. 37 Trillions of dollars are waiting [...]