From: Dave Thomas Date: 2008-05-16T21:59:32+09:00 Subject: Re: 7 Ruby Programming ebook On May 16, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Pablo Q. wrote: > I'm not in the "first world" (I'm from latino america), the > infrastructure > for this king of persecution don't exist. (I know that in Germany in > different). Indeed. According to the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, this general lack of property rights is one of the main limitations to economic growth in the region. Dave