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Book Review: Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital

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07/30/2014Gabriel Calzada Alvarez

In this article, Gabriel Calzada Álvarez offers a review of Hernando de Soto's The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.

Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)

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Gabriel Calzada Alvarez is president of Universidad Francisco Marroquín. He was a Mises Institute Research Fellow, and founder of the Instituto Juan de Mariana. He frequently appears on television broadcasts and has written for publications including Libertad Digital, the Spanish Herald, Expanses, Mises Daily, The Journal of Libertarian Studies, Procesos de Mercados, La Ilustracion Liberal, and Canarias Liberal.

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Álvarez, Gabriel Calzada. "Book Review: Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else." Journal of Libertarian Studies 16, No. 1 (2002): 99–114.