The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere ElseWhy 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 does not benefit five-sixths of mankind. He also proposes a solution: enabling the poor to turn the vast assets they possess into wealth. |
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... Michel Foucault has argued , it may be easier to discover what something means by looking at it from the opposite side of the bridge . ' To find out what our society means by sanity ' , Foucault has written , ' perhaps we should ...
... Michel Foucault has argued , it may be easier to discover what something means by looking at it from the opposite side of the bridge . ' To find out what our society means by sanity ' , Foucault has written , ' perhaps we should ...
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... Michel Foucault : Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics ( Chicago : Harvester , University of Chicago , 1982 ) , p . 211 . 9 George A. Miller and Philip N. Johnson - Laird , Language and Perception ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University ...
... Michel Foucault : Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics ( Chicago : Harvester , University of Chicago , 1982 ) , p . 211 . 9 George A. Miller and Philip N. Johnson - Laird , Language and Perception ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard University ...
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... Michel Foucault . From Derrida I learned that you can use categories from one culture to describe another in a way that everyone can understand - without violating the culture's unique character . And thus I was better able to ...
... Michel Foucault . From Derrida I learned that you can use categories from one culture to describe another in a way that everyone can understand - without violating the culture's unique character . And thus I was better able to ...
Contents
The Five Mysteries of Capital | 1 |
2 The Mystery of Missing Information | 14 |
How Much Dead Capital? | 27 |
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