Peru
One genuinely important book came out of Peru and changed how the development field thinks about informal property. Around de Soto sit a first-rate export-economy history, a quantified history of graft, and the mining-conflict literature that governs whether projects get built.
6 books
Start here
- The Other PathHernando de Soto, 1989
- The Mystery of CapitalHernando de Soto, 2000
- Corrupt CirclesAlfonso W. Quiroz, 2008
Books 6
Hernando de Soto · 1989 · Field measurement of Lima's informal economy and the cost of legality; the founding text.
Hernando de Soto · 2000 · Generalises the Peruvian findings into a theory of dead capital and titling.
Rosemary Thorp, Geoffrey Bertram · 1978 · The classic export-led growth study; why commodity booms did not compound.
Julio F. Carrión · 2006 · Stabilisation, privatisation and the authoritarian bargain that delivered them.
Alfonso W. Quiroz · 2008 · Two centuries of graft quantified; the cost of doing business, measured.
Anthony Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury · 2013 · Mining and hydrocarbon conflict in the Andes; the social licence problem.