Some books are good, some are bad, but very few are real gems.
One of these few gems is the recently published book The Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto. It is not really capitalism but poverty that de Soto is most concerned about. He finds most Third World poverty to be both unnecessary and grossly misunderstood. Most amazing in this remarkable book are the examples it gives of tremendous wealth generated by poor people in Third World countries. Much the same story could be told of the Philippines, Egypt and other Third World countries.