Sunday, October 02, 2005

Fighting Terrorism by enabling Property Rights

This is from Steve Clemon's recent Conference on Economic strategies for fighting terrorism.

A National Security Imperative for America: Getting the Developing Nation Problem Fixed
introduction
Richard Vague
Chairman, http://www.americanrespect.com/ ; co-founder and former Chairman/CEO, First USA Bank
Video of his Iintroduction.

Hernando de Soto
President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy and
Author, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Video of his discussion.

Questions and Answers Video.
I first heard Hernando de Soto discussing his thesis on setting up systems of property rights as a major element of modernizing third-world nations a few years ago, and I was very impressed.

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