Posts Tagged ‘Hernando de Soto’

Top Ten Pro-Liberty Books of the Decade

Top Ten Pro-Liberty Books of the Decade

As 2009 draws to a close we (gladly) wave goodbye to a decade of government decadence where respect  for the principles of  liberty, free exchange, and limited government was scarce.  For those who hold Adam Smith’s maxim of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice” dear to their hearts, the 2000s could not [...]


Sherlock Holmes, Hernando de Soto and Property Rights

Sherlock Holmes solves the crime in The Hound of the Baskervilles because the dog of the house does not bark. Hernando de Soto has solved the problem of property in the Third World by the dogs that bark. Whether in Peru, Egypt, Indonesia, South Africa, Haiti or Central Asia, millions of people have settled on [...]