Informals of the world unite
Geoffrey Hawthorn, 9 November 1989
The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World
by Hernando de Soto, translated by June Abbott.
Tauris, 271 pp., £14.95, June 1989,1 85043 144 2 Show More
by Hernando de Soto, translated by June Abbott.
Tauris, 271 pp., £14.95, June 1989,
Cocaine: White Gold Rush in Peru
by Edmundo Morales.
University of Arizona Press, 228 pp., £17.95, August 1989,0 8165 1066 0 Show More
by Edmundo Morales.
University of Arizona Press, 228 pp., £17.95, August 1989,
A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present
by Rondo Cameron.
Oxford, 437 pp., £30, July 1989,0 19 504677 3 Show More
by Rondo Cameron.
Oxford, 437 pp., £30, July 1989,
“... The common project is to fight what de Soto calls ‘mercantilism’. But mercantilism, as Rondo Cameron explains in his cool review of the world’s economic history, is at best a baggy notion; it has meant many different things, been deployed in many different fights, and explained little. For Adam Smith, it was the success of merchants ... ”