Hernando de Soto

Hernando De Soto - Capitalism at Crossroads

LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

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Finding de Soto

Peach Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

Fascinating. Fernbank Museum of Natural History archaeologist Dennis Blanton didn’t expect to be tracking Hernando de Soto’s route through South Georgia in 1540. But the more he dug at a remote site in Telfair County, the more convinced he became that he was chasing the famous yet elusive Spanish explorer. For the longest time, people have thought [...]

Bead trail may be de Soto's

New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009

ATLANTA --Excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads and other artifacts that may pinpoint the trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. De Soto, the first European to explore present-day Georgia's interior, died with abo...

Property, On Paper

Forbes (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto on the importance of documenting land in a growing economy.

Why is Dead Aid is more important than Dead Capital?

Aid Thoughts (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

... in non-conflict Africa. Rewind one decade. At the turn of the century, a Peruvian named Hernando de Soto published his own treatise on the failure of development. A brilliant thinker and polymath who took ideas from the philosophy of mind, legal theory, the histories of culture, economy and law as well as modern and classical economics, de Soto’s work was called The Mystery...

The EQ Journal Blog on World Partnership Walk

Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009

What Walt Rostow, the Aga Khan and Hernando de Soto Teach us about Bringing People Everywhere out of Poverty Here are excerpts of a short speech I gave at the World Partnership Walk (hosted by the Aga Khan Foundation*) a few years ago to celebrate the bringing together of many peoples and cultures in this great [...]

Satya Thallam on Robert Pozen's "Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System"

Conglomerate (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

Satya Thallam is the Director of the Financial Markets Working Group at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, an interdisciplinary group of scholars who conduct research and advise policymakers on financial regulatory reform efforts. He was previously the 2007 Hernando de Soto Fellow where he conducted research into issues of comparative property rights, and has also written...

The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins

SimoleonSense (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

I think Hernando de Soto would like this paper… Click Here To Read The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins Abstract (Via Shleifer@ Harvard) In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country’s laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as [...]

Archaeologists Track Infamous Conquistador Through Southeast

Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009

Sixteenth century glass beads are among the rare artifacts discovered at Fernbank Museum of Natural History's archaeology site, which scholars believe is a stop along Hernando de Soto's trek through the Southeast in 1540. (Credit: Dan Schultz/Fernbank Museum of Natural History) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Nov. 5, 2009) — Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural...

• Archaeologists Track Infamous Conquistador Through Southeast North America - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Enriching and empowering the poor with their own money

Aguanomics (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

... profits. Non-whites could use de facto rights for water over which they had de jure ownership. As Hernando de Soto would say , the program turned "dead capital" into working capital, for the benefit of its owners. This program lead to positive, measured results: workforce loyalty up by 60%; productivity up by 30%; and absenteeism down by 40%. I am impressed by this entire...

Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail

Sify (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

• Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail - Arizona Republic
• Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer’s trail - Dothan Eagle
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Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer’s trail

Dothan Eagle (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

ATLANTA (AP) — An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

Evidence found in Ga. of Spanish explorer's trail

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.