The New Industrial State
by John Kenneth Galbraith | 
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang | 
The Tyranny of Experts
by William Easterly | 
Capital and Ideology
by Thomas Piketty | 
Saving Capitalism
by Robert B. Reich | 
Bad Samaritans
by Ha-Joon Chang |
American Capitalism
by John Kenneth Galbraith | 
Filthy Lucre
by Joseph Heath | 
Economics and the Public Purpose
by John Kenneth Galbraith | 
The Work of Nations
by Robert B. Reich |
Meltdown
by Thomas E. Woods Jr. |
One World Ready or Not
by William Greider | 
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism
by Robert P. Murphy | 
Development as Freedom
by Amartya Sen | 
The Price of Civilization
by Jeffrey D. Sachs | 
The Creature from Jekyll Island
by G. Edward Griffin | 
The Ascent of Money
by Niall Ferguson | 
The Price of Inequality
by Joseph E. Stiglitz | 
Reckless Endangerment
by Gretchen Morgenson | 
The Alchemists
by Neil Irwin |
"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is central to one of the most crucial problems the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail?In strong opposition to the popular view that success is determined by cultural differences, de Soto finds that it actually has everything to do with the legal structure of property and property rights. Every developed nation in the world at one time went through the transformation from predominantly informal, extralegal ownership to a formal, unified legal property system. In the West we've forgotten that creating this system is also what allowed people everywhere to leverage property into wealth. This persuasive book will revolutionize our understanding of capital and point the way to a major transformation of the world economy.