A native of Perú, Hernando de Soto´s research interests are in the area of the economics of development. He did post-graduate work at L'Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales in Geneva, Switzerland. A Downey Fellow at Yale University, he received the 2002 Goldwater Award from the Goldwater Institute and the 2004 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty from the Cato Institute. A small sample of his publications is listed below.
Books
El Misterio del Capital: ¿Por qué el capitalismo triunfa en occidente y fracasa en el resto del mundo? (2002)
La principal tesis del libro es que no basta privatizar, liberar precios e importaciones, es...
The mystery of capital: why captitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else (2000)
This work is an impassioned plea for institutional reform, notably including establishing full property rights...