Mises Daily
Author:
William L. Anderson
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Review of The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else , by Hernando De Soto. New York: Basic Books, 2000. ISBN 0-465-01614-6, $27.50 (hardback). Last year, my wife and I traveled to Guatemala City in Central America to adopt a baby girl. While Guatemala City is a bustling, well-planned metropolis with