The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. By Hernando de Soto. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. 276. $27.50, cloth; $14.00, paper.

By G. Libecap. Journal Economic History, 2001

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Transforming disadvantages into advantages: developing-country MNEs in the least developed countries (2008, neutral): “Their managers may be more flexible with regard to the application of the law, and more used to managing outside the realm of contractual relationships (de Soto, 2000).”
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, background): “Titling of land in pursuit of credit benefits (de Soto 2000) has in many cases created unsustainable institutions but failed to deliver the expected benefits.”
Corruption and destructive entrepreneurship (2017, positive): “Given the regulatory constraints that can hamper economic activity (de Soto 1989, 2000; NPR 2015), there is an argument that corruption can help Bgrease the wheels^ of economic activity and allow entrepreneurs to bypass costly regulation to engage in productive activity at lower cost (Dreher and…”
Solutions When the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development (2004, background): “For example, critics on the ‘‘left’’ such as James Scott (1998), in Seeing Like a State, provide damning critiques of the impact of governments, while those on the ‘‘right’’ such as Hernando de Soto (2000), in The Mystery of Capital, end a book extolling the virtues of property rights with an appeal”
Institutions, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth: What Do We Know and What Do We Still Need to Know? (2016, positive): “…poor protection of private property rights can be a detriment to 2016 301Bjørnskov and Foss entrepreneurial activityand inparticular thegrowthof new firms (De Soto, 2000), but more so when smallscale business owners cannot bribe their way around these institutional problems (Bologna & Ross, 2015).”
Freedom, barriers to entry, entrepreneurship, and economic progress (2007, neutral): “…discussion of the importance of private property rights to expanding the number of potential entrepreneurs with access to productive capital, see de Soto (2000). powerful signal, one that not only informs entrepreneurs of thumbs-down reactions by consumers, but forces them to terminate failed…”
Bankruptcy Laws and Entrepreneur– Friendliness (2010, positive): “…the impact of specific mechanisms of formal as well as informal institutions on entrepreneurial behavior and performance (Peng et al., 2009), De Soto (2003) reminds us that it is not just piece-meal development of specific institutions that make entrepreneurs take risks and start up new…”
Toward a Theory of Community-Based Enterprise (2006, neutral): “These characteristics can be a stimulant to prospective entrepreneurs, although such entrepreneurs face high levels of uncertainty and risks stemming from political and economic instability, attendant social change, and lack of access to capital markets (de Soto, 2000; Leff, 1979).”
Institutional Theory and Contextual Embeddedness of Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership: Evidence from 92 Countries (2015, neutral): “…career been shown to vary across different countries; some countries facilitate and promote entrepreneurship, while other discourages it by making it difficult to pursue (Baumol, Litan, and Schramm 2009; De Soto 2000; Luthans, Stajkovic, and Ibrayeva 2000; Mueller and Thomas 2001; Tiessen 1997).”
Quo vadis neoliberalism? The remaking of global capitalist governance after the Washington Consensus (2010, background): “Aspatial institutional policies underwrite the conditions for market competition (such as ensuring property rights, cf. de Soto, 2000).”