In this same vein, some may also be interested in an empirical study
by Di Tella and others, about the implications of Peru's titling
program on the worldview of those who were granted title.
In their words, Lucky squatters who end up with legal titles report
beliefs closer to those that
The critical quote below is great, thanks Angela. What's more, if
governments were really to give formal title to everyone and manage to
get every little business powering away with a micro-loan, what would
ensue is an overproduction crisis on a massive scale - since that's the
problem with
I think It's time to read again the important book by Frantz Fanon, Black Skin
White Masks about how the colonized adopt the manners and the visions of the
colonizators, how they become allies to their former oppressors.
He used Algery as model but the same pattern can be used in Africa, South
De Soto's neoliberal prescriptions of formal legal title as a means of
'economic development' have been put to work in Peru, and more recently
in Australia (by way of Noel Pearson's rather more normative version of
de Soto's celebration of formal property titling, and as it has
inflected the
Thanks for this, Patrice.
De Soto's analysis is striking and the problems he reveals are part of
what needs to be addressed. One area where neoliberals a la Hayek have
been right is that the self-organization of individuals and small groups
is more effective than attempts at total state
