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To: elmatador who wrote (22797)	9/19/2007 6:17:24 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 217576

De Soto's observations about the need for clear titles and clear laws have become accepted in most mainstream development economics thinking. Efforts to increase the legal ownership rights of the poor are included in many aid programs from countries, NGOs, etc. De Soto was able to win his main argument and change policies within his lifetime. De Soto is not obscure, even engineers like me have heard of him. Every economist knows that DeSoto is the author of these ideas. Pretty good Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org Greenspan's use of some of De Soto's ideas is a bit like seeing an article on semiconductor technology that mentions that RAM memory density doubles roughly every 24 months. It is an widely accepted idea, and many people know it came from Gordon Moore. Something similar happened with many of the ideas put forward by Peter Drucker - the ideas were absorbed into mainstream management thinking. Since many of these ideas were first published in books directed at businessmen, instead of academic journals, he is often uncreditied or under cited.