Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality

This trail-blazing collection of original essays brings together the distinctive themes of two provocative and influential systems of thought: Hernando de Soto's analysis (in his Mystery of Capital) of why market capitalism is slow to 'take' in many third-world and post-Soviet countries, and John Searle's exploration (in his Construction of Social Reality) of the manner in which human society is constructed by the common acceptance of certain abstract mental categories. Book jacket.Smith, Barry is the author of 'Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780812696158 and ISBN 0812696158.