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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... Squatting” is the unauthorized occupation of land belonging to another. The squatter has been described as: “one who, without colour of right, enters on an unoccupied house or land, intending to stay there as long as he can.”5 Squatting ...
... Squatting” is the unauthorized occupation of land belonging to another. The squatter has been described as: “one who, without colour of right, enters on an unoccupied house or land, intending to stay there as long as he can.”5 Squatting ...
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Mary Manjikian. Hugo Priemus, professor of housing in Delft, Netherlands, traces squatting as a practice back to 1964 in Amsterdam and describes the 1980s as the heyday of squatting, with perhaps twenty thousand total squatters at that ...
Mary Manjikian. Hugo Priemus, professor of housing in Delft, Netherlands, traces squatting as a practice back to 1964 in Amsterdam and describes the 1980s as the heyday of squatting, with perhaps twenty thousand total squatters at that ...
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... squatting was a policy problem that demanded criminalisation. Yet, by taking 'ownership' of the conflict through criminalisation, the state has isolated squatting conflicts from those most directly impacted; the landowners, the squatters ...
... squatting was a policy problem that demanded criminalisation. Yet, by taking 'ownership' of the conflict through criminalisation, the state has isolated squatting conflicts from those most directly impacted; the landowners, the squatters ...
Contents
The Five Mysteries of Capital | 1 |
2 The Mystery of Missing Information | 14 |
How Much Dead Capital? | 27 |
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