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30 Harv. J.Racial & Ethnic Just. 131 (2014)
Listening to (Some) Barking Dogs: Assessing Hernando de Soto's Recipe for the Development of the Amazon Natives of Peru

handle is hein.journals/hblj30 and id is 135 raw text is: LISTENING TO (SOME) BARKING DOGS: ASSESSING HERNANDO DE SoTo's RECIPE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMAZON NATIVES OF PERU Patrick Wieland' & Thomas F. Thornton2 ABSTRACT The work of Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto is both influential and contro- versial. His 2000 bestseller The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Tri- umphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else posits that to solve poverty in the developing world, the poor need to transition from the extralegal sector to the official economy through formal property rights and incorporated businesses. In the wake of the bloody clashes of indigenous peoples and law enforcement agents in the Peruvian Amazon during 2009, de Soto suggested the extrapolation of The Mystery of Capital to the Amazon as a solution for their underdevelopment. He contended that the Amazon natives could only progress if granted formal, individual title to land and allowed to create limited liability native corporations, in the Alaskan tradition. This paper argues that the purported extrapolation of The Mystery of Capital's propositions is problematic. It aims to show that economic integration of the Amazon natives may further expose their land re- sources to appropriation and, in actuality, trigger their cultural and social disintegration. 1. Mr. Wieland graduated from Pontificia Universidad Cat6lica del Perd (2005, J.D. equivalent), and holds a Master's of Laws (LL.M.) from Yale Law School (2011) and a Master's of Science (M.Sci.) in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford (2012). Currently he works as an associate at Baker & McKen- zie's Lima Office and is affiliated with Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) School of Law as a part-time law professor, pwielandf@gmail.com. 2. Dr. Thornton holds a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore Col- lege (Pennsylvania, 1986), a Master's and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Univer- sity of Washington (1995). Currently, he works as a Director of the Environmental Change and Management Programme and Senior Research Fellow at the Environ- mental Change Institute, School of Geography and Environment, University of Ox- ford. He specializes in political ecology and natural resource management of North American and Arctic native peoples, thomas.thornton@ouce.ox.ac.uk.

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