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To: KLP who wrote (22873)1/4/2004 5:28:01 AM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (2) of 793706
 
I'm not sure what your point is with this post.

If there are not well defined property rights there are likely no well preserved human rights. They go hand in hand.

This part of the post doesn't make sense as a logical construction unless there are unstated assumptions at work the writer hasn't informed us of. For instance, there's lots of free enterprise in the 3rd world - it doesn't need to "exported" there - but it's marginalized for reasons de Soto describes, not theorizes about:

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Now that we don't have communism anymore, what do we have? Capitalism? And what is
Capitalism? If capitalism is free enterprise I ask myself where is it(6)? If capitalism is the
free market envisioned by Adam Smith(7), I ask myself where is it(8)? My contention is that
there is no point of exporting Capitalism to the third world as there was no point of exporting
Democracy to Vietnam in the 60s and 70s. Under this overall political and economic
misunderstanding, to blame the failure of Capitalism in the third world countries to the lack
of well defined property right(9) is not only absurd, but void of any social intelligence. I am
just wondering, instead, if the failure of Capitalism in the former communist and third world
countries could be due to the lack of Human Rights in these countries.
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